IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans for new generative AI foundation models and enhancements coming to watsonx – its AI and data platform with a set of AI capabilities designed to help enterprises scale and accelerate the impact of AI. These enhancements include a technical preview for watsonx.governance, new generative AI data services coming to watsonx.data, and the planned integration of watsonx.ai foundation models across select software and infrastructure products.
Developers will be able to get their hands on many of these new capabilities and models September 11-14 at TechXchange, IBM's premier technical learning event in Las Vegas.
IBM has established a training process for its foundation models – centered on principles of trust and transparency – that starts with rigorous data collection and ends in control points for enabling responsible deployments of models and applications for governance, risk assessment, privacy concerns, bias mitigation, and compliance.
IBM is also announcing plans to launch new capabilities across the watsonx platform.
"As demonstrated by the ongoing rollout of the watsonx platform within just a few months since launch, we are here to support clients through the entire AI lifecycle" said Dinesh Nirmal, Senior Vice President, Products, IBM Software. "As a transformation partner, IBM is collaborating with clients to help them scale AI in a trustworthy way – from helping to institute foundational elements of their data strategies to tuning models for their specific business uses cases to helping them govern models beyond that."