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June 23, 2011 - The All England Lawn Tennis Club and IBM today announced new and enhanced AI digital experiences for fans during the 2025 Wimbledon Tennis Championships (henceforth referred to as "Wimbledon"). This includes the debut of "Match Chat," an interactive AI assistant that answers fan questions in real-time during singles matches. The "Likelihood to Win" prediction tool has also been enhanced to provide fans with a dynamically changing probability of winning each match. The solution combines extensive match data with A...

June 10 - IBM and Roche yesterday unveiled their co-created AI-driven solution - Roche's Accu-Chek SmartGuide Predict app - designed to optimize the daily management of diabetes. - designed to optimize the day-to-day management of diabetes. The solution emphasizes the importance of cross-industry collaboration and teamwork in supporting the daily lives of people with diabetes and the delivery of healthcare. The solution was launched in Switzerland a few months ago and served as a key example of digital innovation and cross-industry collaboration on June 5...

May 10, 2011 - IBM on May 2 introduced a preview of one of the smallest versions of its Granite 4.0 family of models: Granite 4.0 Tiny. The Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview benefits from high computational efficiency and low memory requirements: at FP8 precision, running a concurrent dialog of five 128KB context windows requires only 12GB of graphics memory, and a single NVIDIA G...

March 12 news, according to foreign media TechCrunch reported today, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said he thinks AI has important value, but not everything. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that "in the next three to six months 90% code will be generated by AI", Krishna does not agree. "I think it's more likely that the percentage of code generated by AI will be 20% to 30%, which is much less than 90%," Krishna said. "Some simple tasks can be done by A...

February 11, IBM has announced that DeepSeek-R1 distillation versions of Llama 3.1 8B and Llama 3.3 70B are now available on IBM's enterprise AI development platform, watsonx.ai. According to the official introduction, DeepSeek has also leveraged knowledge distillation to optimize multiple Llama and Qwen variants with data generated from the R1 model. Qwen variants using data generated from the R1 model. Users can use DeepSeek distillation models on watsonx.ai by...

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- IBM has announced the development of a new optical technology that can train AI models at the speed of light while saving significant energy. By applying this breakthrough to data centers, the company says that training one AI model saves as much energy as 5,000 U.S. homes consume in a year. The company explained that while data centers are connected to the outside world through fiber optic cables, copper wires are still used internally. These copper wires are connected to GPU gas pedals, which spend a lot of time idle while waiting for data from other devices...

Nov. 19 - IBM announced yesterday (Nov. 18) that it has entered into a partnership with AMD to deploy AMD Instinct™ MI300X gas pedals as a service on the IBM Cloud. The service, which is expected to be available in the first half of 2025, is designed to improve performance and energy efficiency for enterprise customers in generative AI models and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. IBM says that through this partnership, its ...

Technology media outlet NeoWin (Oct. 21) published a blog post reporting that IBM, at its annual TechXchange event, unveiled a new Granite 3.0 family of AI models that can equal or exceed models of similar size in academic and industry benchmarks. The Granite 3.0 series includes a variety of new models, the relevant models are as follows: Generalized / Linguistic Models: Granite 3.0 8B Instruct Granite 3.0 2B Instruct ...

As the 2024 US Open approaches, fans and athletes are about to have an unprecedented digital experience. IBM and the United States Tennis Association (USTA) have teamed up again to launch a series of new AI features to improve the efficiency of event interaction and information delivery. These AI features driven by the WatsonX platform will provide more detailed post-match summaries, more vivid AI commentary, and a fully upgraded SlamTracker during the game. This year, IBM has launched AI-generated match reports covering every men’s and women’s singles match…

IBM recently announced the introduction of generative AI capabilities to its Managed Threat Detection and Response service for use by IBM Consulting analysts to collaborate with clients to advance and streamline security operations. Built on watsonx, IBM's data and AI platform, the new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation and response to critical security threats. In addition to being incorporated into IBM Consulti...

McDonald's recently controversial automatic ordering AI system will temporarily stop testing. Customers who often have their orders misplaced by artificial intelligence chatbots can now breathe a sigh of relief. According to the industry publication Restaurant Business, McDonald's has notified its franchisees that it will end the automatic voice ordering system test with IBM by July 26, 2024. Image source Pexels This cooperation project, which began in 2021, has been piloted in more than 100 McDonald's drive-thru restaurants. At present, McDonald's has not announced the specific reason for terminating its cooperation with IBM. …

IIBM has announced new updates to its generative AI platform watsonx, including new assistant tools, third-party models and a broader commitment to open source AI. At the company's annual Think conference, IBM announced a shift in focus to support open source. The company has open-sourced a series of its Granite large-scale language models, meaning that organizations can use them to support their business applications. These new open source models include powerful coding models that developers can use to troubleshoot, generate code, and maintain code bases across 116 programming languages.Gr...

IBM recently issued a press release announcing the availability of a new version of its FlashCore Module storage drive and a new version of its Storage Defender software, which combine to improve customers' ability to detect and respond to cyberattacks or ransomware. IBM said the existing FlashSystem products can scan all incoming data and provide proper security protection without affecting transfer performance. The latest FlashCore Module 4 (FCM) introduces a new AI model that continuously monitors data from...

In a forecast released Wednesday, IBM expects full-year revenue growth to beat market expectations on steady demand for its IT software and consulting services as companies seek to adopt artificial intelligence technology. The company's shares rose more than 8% in after-hours trading. An IBM spokesman said the company will make some staff reductions in 2024, but will hire for more AI-centric roles and doesn't expect the total workforce to change much throughout the year. ibm expects there will likely be a similar rebalancing charge to 2023, amounting to about $400 million. After CEO Arvind Kerry...

IBM has announced a $500 million Enterprise AI Venture Fund to invest in a variety of AI companies, from startups to high-growth enterprises. This move is IBM's latest investment in the field of artificial intelligence and aims to promote the research and development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology in the enterprise. The goal of IBM's Enterprise AI Venture Fund is to accelerate the research and development of generative artificial intelligence technology in the enterprise. IBM will leverage its domain expertise and dedicated portfolio development team to identify and support leaders who will help realize the full potential of artificial intelligence in the enterprise. This…