How IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Is Thinking About AI and Quantum Computing

IBM was one of the giants of 20th-century computing. It helped design the modern PC, and created the first AI to defeat a human champion in the game of chess. But when you think of AI, IBM might not be the first, or even the tenth, company to spring to mind. "We are a B2B company, and explaining what we do to the average reader--we'll take all the help we can get," IBM CEO Arvind Krishna joked ahead of a recent interview with TIME. IBM does indeed build AI models--not massive ones like OpenAI's GPT4-o or Google's Gemini, but smaller ones designed for use in high-stakes settings, where accuracy comes at a premium.