Sunil Murthy, watsonx Technical Leader for IBM’s U.S. National Market, joins for a recap of the announcements, excitement, and more from IBM’s TechXchange 2024 conference that happened in Las Vegas.

This episode of CTRL ALT STORY also touches on the following topics:

• A day in the life of a watsonx Technical Leader and Sunil’s career journey to get there
• How IBM is enabling greater developer productivity with new tooling to build autonomous agents, customize LLMs, and optimize RAG-based workflows with low-code and code-first based solutions
• IBM’s approach to models: fit-for-purpose. Lead the market and drive AI relevancy with new Granite models and top benchmarks with best-in-class performance, cost-efficiency, transparency and safety
• The important of trust in AI: Continue to drive our market leadership and differentiation in AI Governance with new model benchmarks, evaluations, and AI guardrails, along with new, integrated AI Security
• Several of the announcements from the conference are covered including the Granite 3.0 models, the AI Evaluation Studio, the watsonx.ai Developer Toolkit, Granite Guardian Models, and much more.

Link to an article about the Granite 3.0 Announcements: https://www.ibm.com/new/ibm-granite-3-0-open-state-of-the-art-enterprise-models

Link to an article about streamlining the AI Application Development Process with watsonx.ai: https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/streamline-the-ai-application-development-process-with-ibm-watsonx-ai

Your host is Josh Spurgin and I’m a watsonx Technical Specialist at IBM. I can also be found under the name Data Nerd Josh on various social media platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn. My website is www.DataNerdJosh.com

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