Summary
IBM watsonx.ai is an integrated AI development studio designed for enterprises to train, validate, tune, and deploy generative AI, foundation models, and machine learning capabilities. It provides a comprehensive toolkit for AI builders, including APIs, customizable models, and flexible runtimes, with a strong emphasis on governance and responsible AI development.
Features9/13
See allMust Have
5 of 5
Conversational AI
API Access
Safety & Alignment Framework
Fine-Tuning & Custom Models
Enterprise Solutions
Other
4 of 8
Image Generation
Code Generation
Multimodal AI
Research & Publications
Security & Red Teaming
Synthetic Media Provenance
Threat Intelligence Reporting
Global Affairs & Policy
PricingTiered
See allFree
- Foundation Models: Up to 50,000 tokens per month
- Machine Learning Tools: Up to 20 Compute Usage Hours (CUH) per month
- Text Extraction: Up to 100 documents per month
- Playground UI
- Inferencing
- Open source models
- IBM watsonx® models
- Work with foundational models (PromptLab)
- Supports retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
- Work with agents (AgentLab)
- Synthetic data generator
- watsonx community and online chatbot
Essentials (Pay-as-you-go)
- Production deployments
- ML functionality**
- Text extraction**
- Prompt tuning**
- Basic support included: 24x7 access to tech support through cases
Standard (Pay-as-you-go)
- Enterprise production
- Model enhancement and customization (InstructLab)**
- Custom foundation models***
- Model hosting***
- Deploy on-demand models***
- Basic support included: 24x7 access to tech support through cases
Rationale
IBM watsonx.ai is a comprehensive AI development studio that aligns very well with the OpenAI Platform concept. It offers a wide range of features, including conversational AI capabilities through its Prompt Lab and RAG development, extensive API access for integration, and a strong focus on safety and governance with its watsonx.governance component and intellectual property indemnification. The platform supports fine-tuning and custom models, provides enterprise-grade solutions with advanced security and compliance, and offers multimodal AI capabilities including image-to-text and code generation. While it doesn't explicitly mention 'red teaming' or 'synthetic media provenance' as distinct features, its overall safety and governance framework, along with its research and publications, cover similar ground.
