From the Newsroom
We are focused on all of the Gen AI related announcements from Think 2024! It was really wild how many there were, so here is a short summary.
IBM Unveils Next Chapter of watsonx with Open Source, Product & Ecosystem Innovations to Drive Enterprise AI at Scale
The key aspects of the announcement inludes:
- Releases a family of IBM Granite models into open source, including its most capable and efficient Code LLMs that can out-perform larger code models on many industry benchmarks
- Jointly with Red Hat, launches InstructLab, a first-of-its-kind model alignment technique, to bring open-source community contributions directly into LLMs
- Unveils new vision and momentum for new data and automation capabilities; Accelerates generative AI infusion into IBM assistants, automation, infrastructure, resource management products and consulting services
- Strengthens collaborations with AWS, Adobe, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Palo Alto Networks, SAP, Salesforce, and SDAIA to expand capabilities and offer model choice, flexibility and governance through watsonx
New Strategic Partnership from IBM off clients a wide range of enterprise-grade model choices
IBM will soon offer its customers the Mistral family of commercial models on IBM® watsonx.ai™, both on-premises and in IBM Cloud®. This includes the latest version of Mistral-Large, one of the leading AI models in the market today. IBM looks forward to continuing open-source collaboration with Mistral AI, including their popular Mixtral series of open-source mixture-of-experts models, and IBM InstructLab-tuned Mistral 7B variant, Merlinite.
In addition, we premiered the Allam, an open Arabic large language model (LLM) from SDAIA, available today on the watsonx.ai
IBM and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Advance Open, Trusted AI and Data Ecosystems
IBM watsonx platform and IBM Granite series models will bring even more large language models to power generative AI use cases, pre-built actions, and prompts across the Salesforce Einstein 1 Platform. And IBM joins the Salesforce Zero Copy Partner Network to enable zero copy data integration between IBM watsonx and Salesforce Data Cloud, giving customers a secure and cost-effective way to connect all of their data and take action on it
Available on AWS Marketplace: Integration of IBM watsonx.governance and Amazon SageMaker
IBM and Amazon Web Services plan to integrate IBM watsonx.governance and Amazon SageMaker -- a service to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) and generative AI models with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows -- to help Amazon SageMaker and watsonx customers manage model risk and support compliance obligations in connection with recent regulatory requirements such as the EU AI Act. This integration rounds out the availability of the watsonx platform in AWS Marketplace, which already includes IBM watsonx.ai and watsonx.data as customer managed offerings.
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