A trusted foundation for flexible and scalable enterprise AI
Our approach to AI models
Choosing the right model matters to your AI applications, your brand and your bottom line. IBM gives you the freedom to choose from thousands of models from leading providers and select the one that best fits your use case, whether it’s IBM® Granite®, third-party options or your own custom models.
Our open-source models, IBM Granite
Open
Open source under Apache 2.0, Granite ensures transparency, while enabling full customizability and deployment flexibility across any infrastructure.
Performant
The small, high-performing models are designed to maximize efficiency and scalability for essential enterprise tasks.
Trusted
Eliminate the risk of “black box” AI with transparency into training data and processes, harm detection capabilities and built-in guardrails.
Choose your model, then start building
Choosing the right AI model is just the beginning. When paired with the powerful IBM watsonx portfolio, our AI models help you scale and manage AI effectively at every stage of the lifecycle.
Increase productivity by easily creating, deploying and managing AI assistants and agents to automate and simplify business and customer-facing processes.
Accelerate your developers’ productivity and reduce time to market by infusing AI into the entire application lifecycle to automate development tasks and streamline workflows.
Develop custom AI applications faster and easier with an integrated, collaborative, end-to-end developer studio that features an AI developer toolkit and full AI lifecycle management.
Manage, prepare and integrate trusted data from anywhere, in any format so you can unlock AI insights faster and improve the relevance and precision of your AI applications.
Automate governance to proactively manage AI risks, simplify regulatory compliance and create responsible, explainable AI workflows.
Increase productivity by easily creating, deploying and managing AI assistants and agents to automate and simplify business and customer-facing processes.
Accelerate your developers’ productivity and reduce time to market by infusing AI into the entire application lifecycle to automate development tasks and streamline workflows.
Develop custom AI applications faster and easier with an integrated, collaborative, end-to-end developer studio that features an AI developer toolkit and full AI lifecycle management.
Manage, prepare and integrate trusted data from anywhere, in any format so you can unlock AI insights faster and improve the relevance and precision of your AI applications.
Automate governance to proactively manage AI risks, simplify regulatory compliance and create responsible, explainable AI workflows.
AI you can trust
Responsible AI is at the core of our mission, with fairness, transparency, privacy and security in every solution we develop. Guided by our Principles for Trust and Transparency, we ensure that AI systems are ethical, explainable and designed to benefit organizations and society as a whole.
The IBM AI Ethics Board governs the development and deployment of AI to ensure that it aligns with IBM’s values and advances responsible innovation.
The AI Alliance is building an AI open-source community to accelerate responsible innovation in AI while ensuring scientific rigor, safety, diversity and economic competitiveness.
Granite Guardian models are designed to detect and mitigate risks like bias, unethical behavior and hallucinations, ensuring safe and responsible AI deployments.
Discover how AI models can transform your business, and the essential guardrails and governance needed to deploy them responsibly.