IBM Opens More AI Models, Lands Saudi Arabia Deal

Tuesday, International Business Machines (IBM) announced in a new tab that it will assist Saudi Arabia in training an AI system in Arabic and release a family of artificial intelligence models as open-source software

Several of the business’s competitors, including Microsoft (MSFT), open new tabs, and others closely control their artificial intelligence models and charge for access.

Based in Armonk, New York, the company has adopted a strategy different from those of its competitors to make money from artificial intelligence.

IBM is instead providing open access to the models itself, and on Wednesday, it unveiled its “Granite” family of artificial intelligence models for enterprises to alter. This is similar to the approach of Meta Platforms (META), another company that owns Facebook.

The purpose of Granite Tools is to assist software engineers in completing computer code more expediently. IBM provides a paid application known as Watsonx to generate revenue from the models. This application helps in the seamless operation of the models within a data center after they have been modified.

It has been IBM’s policy to try to gain money when clients get used to artificial intelligence models, regardless of whether the models originated from IBM or other companies and whether or not they run in IBM’s data centers.

According to statements made by Arvind Krishna, Chief Executive Officer of IBM, to Reuters, “We believe we are in the early days of generative AI models.” “At the end of the day, increased competition benefits purchasers. In addition to this, we aim to be responsible and safe.

IBM has recently announced that the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority would use Watsonx to train its “ALLaM” Arabic language model. This will bring additional language skills to the services that IBM offers, including the capability to understand several dialects of Arabic.