Jean-François Michotte and Mark de Groot

Yuma @ IBM Think 2024

A vision for the future of people, business and technology

Last week, Jean-Fraçois Michotte and Mark de Groot, travelled to Boston to join the big IBM Think 2024 congress and to learn about the latest developments in technology. Together with Clients such Belastingdienst, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, UWV, Belfius, FODFIN, SEB, and many more we went to Red Hat executive briefing center and got all recent AI developments, did a Cybersecurity incident response simulation together and went to MIT campus and to the MIT/IBM Research Lab.

IBM Think

IBM Think is the premier event for business and technology leaders, innovators, and thinkers who want to learn, network, and discover new ways to solve the world's most pressing challenges. The conference, which took place online from 27 to 29 May 2024, featured keynote speakers, breakout sessions, demos, workshops, and entertainment. More than 100,000 participants from over 150 countries joined the event, which was streamed live and on-demand.

Highlights

IBM emphasized the transformative potential of AI, predicting a $4 trillion annual productivity increase by 2030 for those who effectively utilize it. However, only 42% of large enterprises have implemented AI so far, with 40% still in the experimental phase.

IBM unveiled several updates to its watsonx AI platform, including:

  • Releasing its Granite family of large language models into open source, ranging from 3 billion to 34 billion parameters.
  • Launching InstructLab in collaboration with Red Hat for developing AI assistants.
  • Introducing new watsonx assistants for enterprise Java, IBM Z mainframes, and a builder for custom assistants.

IBM highlighted its partnerships and collaborations with major tech companies like AWS, Adobe, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP to integrate third-party models and capabilities into watsonx.

IBM showcased advancements in quantum computing, with 70 quantum computers deployed globally and over 3 trillion experiments conducted. IBM predicts quantum computing will solve problems beyond classical computing within 3-5 years.

Conclusion

Overall, IBM positioned itself at the forefront of the AI revolution, emphasizing the transformative potential of AI assistants working alongside humans to drive productivity and innovation. With our latests friends of B12 on board we can really achieve benefits by scaling businesses with AI and hybrid cloud.