IBM and global digital transformation specialist HCLTech have teamed up to offer clients a Generative AI Centre of Excellence based at sites in the US, UK and India. The centre will be based on IBM’s watsonX AI and data platform and made available through HCL’s AI and Cloud Native Labs situated in Noida, London, New […]
IBM and global digital transformation specialist HCLTech have teamed up to offer clients a Generative AI Centre of Excellence based at sites in the US, UK and India.
The centre will be based on IBM’s watsonX AI and data platform and made available through HCL’s AI and Cloud Native Labs situated in Noida, London, New Jersey and Santa Clara.
The enterprise tech giants say the aim of the centres is to help companies on their Gen AI journey so they can experiment with use cases, reduce coding complexity and improve skills development.
The companies have also pledged to train 10,000 engineers and architects in IBM’s innovative AI technologies on the watsonx platform to help skill their resources and provide a platform for building use cases.
Clients of both companies will be offered access to several education and training resources on a range of IBM’s watson-based technologies including: watsonx.ai; watsonx.data; watsonx.governance; watsonx Code Assistants; watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx Assistant.
Stephen Smith, general manager, service partners, IBM ecosystem, emphasised that driving adoption of responsible generative AI solutions was an important component of its collaboration with service partners such as HCLTech.
“Through this Center of Excellence, we plan to empower our joint clients to rapidly explore, experiment and engineer generative AI solutions with watsonx that are designed to meet their current business challenges,” he added.
Alan Flower, EVP, global head, AI & Cloud Native Labs, HCLTech said that the IT specialist plans to embed watsonx in its Gen AI suit of solutions, HCLTech AI Force to support code modernisation.
He added: “This expansion of our work with IBM will facilitate rapid exploration of AI’s potential as we create highly differentiated HCLTech offerings using the latest IBM technology.”
Last month CRM giant Salesforce launched its first AI centre in London to encourage customer and partner innovations and upskilling.
