At IBM’s annual Think conference, CEO Arvind Krishna announced a range of new initiatives related to artificial intelligence (AI), including Watsonx, a product platform that provides businesses with technologies and services to create and manage AI models. This includes IBM Watsonx AI, which offers a library of pretrained models that can be fine-tuned for use in enterprise applications. IBM is also partnering with Hugging Face to bring open AI models to Watsonx users and introducing the Watson Code Assistant, a generative AI coding tool. Watsonx will also provide data and governance services to help companies use their own data securely with strong governance for access and privacy.
At the press roundtable ahead of the conference, Krishna and other IBM executives discussed the importance of explaining AI, the ongoing need for humans in IT, and how IBM is working to differentiate itself from other AI providers such as OpenAI. IBM is focusing on enterprise use cases and building dedicated models for specific tasks, in addition to providing Watsonx governance features such as life cycle management and model-drift detection. According to Krishna, businesses are transitioning from experimenting with AI to using it on a much larger scale.
The executive mentioned in the article is Arvind Krishna, an American businessman who has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IBM since April 2020. After taking the position, he made AI a priority in IBM’s operations. His main focus is to give companies the tools they need to use AI responsibly and securely. He also works to reduce fear of AI replacing humans and promote it more as a productivity multiplier, helping workers automate processes and get more done.
