IBM Combines PowerAI, Data Science Experience in Enterprise AI Push

IBM has spent the past several years putting a laser focus on what it calls cognitive computing, using its Watson platform as the foundation for its efforts in such emerging fields as artificial intelligence (AI) and is successful spinoff, deep learning. Big Blue has leaned on Watson technology, its traditional Power systems, and increasingly powerful GPUs from Nvidia to drive its efforts to not only bring AI and deep learning into the cloud, but also to push AI into the enterprise. The technologies are part of a larger push in the industry to help enterprises transform their businesses to take advantage of such trends as the rise of the cloud, the increasing use of mobile technologies and the skyrocketing growth of data that is being generated by these companies and needs to be processed and analyzed. Much of the work with AI, deep learning and analytics have been done in the cloud, promoted by hyperscale cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. IBM also has put many of its capabilities into its own cloud.