IBM is doubling down on its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts with a series of new initiatives announced at Big Blue’s annual Think conference. The efforts fall under IBM’s new Watsonx product platform, which includes technologies and services to help organizations build and manage AI models, including generative AI. IBM is partnering with Hugging Face to bring access to open AI models to IBM’s enterprise users, and the Watsonx platform also includes the Watsonx data and Watsonx governance services. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna outlined the new efforts and provided insight into how IBM is tackling the hot-button issues of explainable AI, competition and the continued need for humans in IT.
