IBM watsonx - the AI and data platform developed for business

Large and medium-sized companies have understood that generative AI has the potential to increase productivity enormously, which is why they are looking into its use. On the other hand, the longer it becomes more and more apparent that this powerful new technology also brings with it challenges such as explainability, data protection, protection of intellectual property and very convincing incorrect statements, so-called hallucinations.

With watsonx, IBM has developed a platform for generative AI and data with which companies can automate their business processes trustworthy and quickly. This platform also has convincing answers to the challenges.

Why watsonx?

The IBM® watsonx AI and data platform includes three core components and a suite of AI assistants designed to scale and accelerate the benefits of AI across your organization with trusted data. Companies choose watsonx because of the following features:

• Open: Based on open technologies that provide a variety of models to cover use cases and meet enterprise compliance requirements.
• Targeted: Target specific business areas such as HR, customer service or IT operations to take advantage of new benefits.
• Trustworthy: Built on the principles of transparency, accountability, and governance to address legal, regulatory, ethical, and accuracy concerns.
• Empowering: Don’t just use AI, but become an AI value creator who benefits from the value its models create.

Platform components

Create, scale and control your individual AI solutions. The watsonx platform includes three components that allow you to customize your AI solution. Select one or more components that meet your needs.

1. Train, test, optimize, and deploy base and machine learning models with ease with watsonx.ai.
2. With watsonx.data, scale analytics and AI workloads for all your data, anywhere with open, hybrid, and regulated data storage.
3. Watsonx.governance helps you bring transparency and explainability to your data and AI workflows. They can also document the entire life cycle of their AI models, thereby laying the foundation for compliance with emerging government guidelines.

Advantages of IBM watsonx

1. With a selection of commercial and open-source models you get the optimum for your application in terms of both accuracy and costs. Furthermore there is intellectual property protection for IBM-developed AI models.
2. You can run the solution both in the cloud and on-prem. Depending on the use case and regulatory requirements, it is crucial that you can implement your solution in the appropriate environment.
3. With watsonx.governance you manage, document and monitor your artificial intelligence and lay the foundation for compliance with official regulations.
4. With watsonx.data you have the ideal data platform to remain competitive with your generative AI in the long term.

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