Watsonx

Watsonx is an AI and data platform that can help companies scale and accelerate the use of AI across their businesses. It's made of three main elements: Watsonx.ai, Watsonx.data and Watsonx.governance, which together help build, operate and govern AI systems.

Watsonx.ai lets customers train, validate, tune and deploy foundation and machine learning models. Watsonx.data is a data repository for analytics and AI workloads. Watsonx.governance speeds up responsibility, transparency and explainability in data and AI workflows.

The platform is open, focused, trusted and empowering, so customers can build their own AI applications tailored to their business needs. Watsonx spans many domains, including HR, customer service and IT operations.

Some of the key features of Watsonx include:

• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): Creates a Q&A resource based on proprietary data to share company knowledge.
• Generative AI: Creates content like marketing ideas, emails, blog posts, social media posts and automated reports.
• Chatbots: Deploys AI-powered voice agents and chatbots quickly with IBM Watsonx Assistant.
• Developer Productivity: Speeds coding with AI-boosted code suggestions.
• Customer Experience: Uses business data to create better customer experiences with contextually relevant responses.
• Data Insights: Analyzes large data sets to uncover insights, identify patterns and spot anomalies.

Watsonx pricing comes in three tiers:

• Trial: Free, including ML functionality, inferencing and open source models.
• Essentials: $1050 per month, including all trial features plus synthetic data generation and prompt tuning.
• Future Availability: Additional services like model hosting, bring-your-own-model, and watsonx.data and watsonx.governance features priced per hour or based on usage.

Watsonx is designed to help companies get the most out of AI while ensuring transparency, accountability and governance. Whether it's to boost employee productivity, create content or improve customer experience, Watsonx provides a broad foundation for AI adoption and integration.

Published on July 11, 2024