Cisco Enhances AI Reliability With Intent to Acquire Observability Leader Galileo

Strengthening the AI Agent Workforce

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Galileo Technologies, Inc., a startup focused on making artificial intelligence more reliable and observable. The deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco’s 2026 fiscal year, aims to address the critical challenges of trust and accuracy as companies deploy autonomous AI agents. This strategic move follows Cisco's broader investment in AI infrastructure and its previous acquisition of Splunk.

Real-Time Protection and Guardrails

Galileo will be integrated into the Splunk Observability Cloud, providing teams with real-time visibility across the full Agent Development Lifecycle. This expansion allows Cisco to offer specialized metrics beyond traditional latency and error tracking; it focuses instead on hallucination detection and bias mitigation. The goal is to provide a unified platform where developers can optimize prompts and enforce safety guardrails before applications reach production.

A Proven Foundation for Enterprise Trust

Founded in 2021 by veterans from Google AI and Apple, Galileo has raised over $68 million from major investors including Scale Venture Partners and Databricks Ventures. Its platform is already a standard for Fortune 50 enterprises including HP and Comcast, who use it to safeguard their generative AI applications. The integration will help customers track token usage and costs while ensuring that their AI coworkers perform with high accuracy.

Expanding the Open AI Ecosystem

The two companies previously collaborated on the AGNTCY initiative, a consortium now under the Linux Foundation dedicated to creating open-source specifications for AI ecosystems. This shared history underscores a long-term vision of building an "Internet of Agents" that is both interoperable and secure. "Galileo was purpose-built to solve one of the hardest and most consequential problems in AI: Trust," noted Kamal Hathi, Senior Vice President at Splunk. Until the transaction is finalized, both organizations will continue to operate independently.