In addition to these enhancements, IBM is also offering Meta’s Llama 2-chat 70 billion parameter model and the StarCoder LLM for code generation in watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud. The company introduced watsonx in May, with CEO Arvind Krishna stating it was designed for clients to become "AI advantaged". IBM is also working with Salesforce to help clients adopt AI for customer relationship management while protecting their data. The partnership aims to increase employee productivity and elevate the customer experience with speed, personalization, and convenience.
Key takeaways:
- IBM is releasing new enhancements to its AI platform, watsonx, including a technical preview for watsonx.governance, new generative AI data services for watsonx.data, and the planned integration of watsonx.ai foundation models across select software and infrastructure products.
- The company's new generative AI models for watsonx.ai include the "Granite" series, which uses the "Decoder" architecture to support enterprise NLP tasks such as summarization, content generation, and insight extraction.
- IBM is also offering Meta's Llama 2-chat 70 billion parameter model and the StarCoder LLM for code generation in watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud.
- IBM is working with Salesforce to help clients adopt AI for customer relationship management while protecting their data, aiming to increase employee productivity and elevate the customer experience.