MUMBAI, India - LTIMindtree (NS:LTIM) [NSE: LTIM, BSE: 540005], a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, announced today a partnership with IBM (NYSE: NYSE:IBM) to create a Generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) in India. The CoE is designed to be a hub for innovation, leveraging IBM's watsonx AI and data platform alongside LTIMindtree's engineering capabilities.
The collaboration aims to foster open innovation and provide a suite of services that combine LTIMindtree's expertise in data and machine learning model customization with IBM's watsonx technology, including watsonx.ai, watsonx.data, and watsonx.governance, as well as AI assistants. The center will concentrate on developing solutions to speed up the adoption of generative AI for clients.
Nachiket Deshpande, COO of LTIMindtree, emphasized the significance of open innovation in advancing AI technologies and enabling businesses to achieve success with governance. Kate Woolley, General Manager of IBM Ecosystem, highlighted the role of IBM Service Partners like LTIMindtree in helping enterprises fully realize the benefits of generative AI technology.
The CoE is expected to offer various benefits to clients, such as integrating watsonx.governance with the Canvas.ai platform to provide an enterprise-ready toolkit for AI governance. It will also provide a service for enterprise data modernization and warehouse augmentation powered by watsonx.data, along with a suite of services for modernizing full-stack applications.
The CoE plans to expand the scope of generative AI applications for digital initiatives, utilizing IBM's watsonx platform and AI assistants. This includes machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing, and conversational AI to enhance end-user experiences.
This collaboration is based on a press release statement.
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