Collaboration to supply Saudi Arabia-specific shopper options comprised of generative AI merchandise from IBM watsonx portfolio and Lenovo infrastructure.
RIYADH, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA – February 9, 2025 – IBM and Lenovo at present introduced at LEAP 2025 a deliberate enlargement of their strategic know-how partnership designed to assist scale the affect of generative AI for purchasers within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
IDC expects annual worldwide spending on AI-centric programs to surpass $300 billion by 2026, with many main organizations in Saudi Arabia exploring and investing in generative AI use circumstances as they put together for the emergence of an ‘AI in every single place’ world.1
Constructing upon their 20-year partnership, IBM and Lenovo will collaborate to ship AI options comprised of know-how from the IBM watsonx portfolio of AI merchandise, together with the Saudi Information and Synthetic Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) open-source Arabic Giant Language Mannequin (ALLaM), and Lenovo infrastructure. These options are anticipated to assist authorities and enterprise purchasers within the Kingdom to speed up their use of AI to enhance public companies and make data-driven selections in areas similar to fraud detection, public security, customer support, code modernization, and IT operations.
“At present’s announcement represents an necessary step within the longstanding relationship between IBM and Lenovo,” mentioned Giovanni Di Filippo, President of EMEA, Infrastructure Options Group at Lenovo. “We’re happy to deepen our partnership to deliver IBM’s fit-for-purpose generative AI choices along with Lenovo’s infrastructure options for each on-premises and cloud use to supply prospects in Saudi Arabia with options designed to satisfy their distinctive wants on this fast-paced rising market.”
Organizations in Saudi Arabia are at present in a position to entry ALLaM by way of watsonx; use superior AI capabilities to coach, tune, and deploy ALLaM; and run their AI workloads on Lenovo infrastructure for each on-premises and cloud use circumstances. The brand new options are anticipated to supply extra methods for purchasers to harness the ability of Generative AI with an method based mostly on transparency, belief, and selection.
“IBM and Lenovo have a wealthy historical past of joint innovation and partnership that spans twenty years,” mentioned Ayman AlRashed, Regional Vice President, IBM Saudi Arabia. “We stay up for this new collaboration to deliver collectively Lenovo’s infrastructure choices and IBM’s AI portfolio, which makes use of small, environment friendly, open-source fashions focused for particular use circumstances and geographic necessities. Collectively we’ll drive even higher worth for our mutual purchasers within the Kingdom.”
Statements concerning IBM’s and Lenovo’s future route and intent are topic to alter or withdrawal with out discover, and symbolize targets and goals solely.
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