IDC spotlight paper: The truth about successful generative AI
Improve productivity, enable flexibility, and foster innovation


Implementing successful genAI, unique to your business needs, requires custom foundation models to cater to your specific use cases.
Read the IDC Spotlight paper commissioned by IBM to uncover the benefits of AI platforms that enable foundation model customization through technology, processes, and best practices, to help you easily operationalize the genAI lifecycle.
You can also read how watsonx.ai’s foundation models and prompt engineering capabilities, are an option to consider when it comes to your AI strategy.
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