US EditionIBM CEO makes play for AI market and more US investment
- IBM CEO Arvind Krishna unveiled new AI tools on May 6, 2025, at the IBM Think conference to help businesses manage and create AI agents.
- IBM developed these tools to integrate AI agents from providers like Salesforce, Adobe, and Workday and to enable customers to build agents for untapped business use cases.
- The watsonx platform uses IBM’s Granite AI models plus alternatives from Meta and Mistral to create AI agents in under five minutes, supporting enterprise-grade deployments.
- Krishna highlighted a $150 billion US investment plan based on growth opportunities in mainframe, AI, and quantum computing, and projected AI agent deployments to grow 327% over two years.
- IBM and CEO Arvind Krishna emphasize the need to boost government investment in AI and related technology research, cautioning that recent budget reductions could threaten the United States' position as a leader in innovation and global AI development.
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IBM CEO makes play for AI market and more US investment
IBM on Tuesday made a play for more sales in the crowded artificial intelligence field, touting tools that could help customers manage a fleet of AI agents for their key business applications. In an interview, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said he saw an opening to provide software that integrates customers'
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