Date: 03/03/2025

Qualcomm and IBM have joined hands to bring generative AI from edge to cloud

Qualcomm and IBM announced an expanded collaboration to drive enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across edge and cloud devices designed to enable increased immediacy, privacy, reliability, personalization, and reduced cost and energy consumption.

Through this collaboration, the companies plan to integrate watsonx.governance for generative AI solutions powered by Qualcomm Technologies’ platforms and enable support for IBM’s Granite models through the Qualcomm AI Inference Suite and Qualcomm AI Hub.

This partnership to deliver cutting-edge, enterprise-grade generative AI solutions for devices across the edge and cloud with robust governance, monitoring, and decision-making capabilities, with the ability to enhance the overall reliability of AI from edge to cloud.

Through this collaboration IBM's watsonx.governance and Granite models are optimized for use with Snapdragon and Qualcomm Dragonwing platforms.

Qualcomm Technologies and IBM plan to run watsonx.govenance, Granite Guardian 8B, and Granite 3.1 8B models on a Snapdragon 8 Elite reference design and the Qualcomm Dragonwing AI On-Prem Appliance Solution with the Qualcomm AI Inference Suite.

Qualcomm and IBM are combining on-device inferencing, low power, and privacy features with the performance of watsonx to help address security, efficiency, reliability, and governance from AI solutions for businesses.

Qualcomm has optimized IBM’s Granite 3.1, IBM’s third-generation Granite flagship language models, for the Qualcomm AI Hub to help empower developers and businesses to harness the full potential of AI at the edge. The companies will expand the Qualcomm AI Hub and IBM watsonx collaboration to include governance and responsibility guardrails for on-device models via watsonx.governance capabilities.

The Qualcomm Cloud AI family of accelerators is now certified and available for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. The certification facilitates the deployment at scale of IBM’s suite of software applications, including watsonx, using hardware solutions based on Qualcomm Cloud AI.

Source: Qualcomm

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