(Reuters) – IBM on Monday released the latest version of its artificial intelligence model for enterprises, aiming to take advantage of the surge in companies adopting generative AI technology.
The Granite 3.0 model, like other versions of IBM’s Granite family of AI models, will be open source. This approach differs from competitors such as Microsoft, which charges customers for access to their models.
On the other hand, IBM offers a paid tool called Watsonx that helps you run your models within your data center after customization.
Some variants of the new Granite model will be commercially available on the Watsonx platform starting Monday. Some of these models will also be available in Nvidia’s software tools stack, which allows companies to incorporate AI models.
Dario Gil, IBM’s director of research, said the new Granite model was trained using AI chip leader Nvidia’s H100 graphics processor unit (GPU).
(Reporter Arsheeya Bajwa in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)
