IBM and HCLTech establish generative AI centres to help customers customise AI solutions

India’s multinational tech firm HCLTech and IBM have teamed up to establish a Generative AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) based on IBM’s Watsonx AI and data platform.

The centres will be available through HCLTech’s AI and Cloud Native Labs in London and Austin, Texas.

IBM said the aim of the centres is to help companies build custom AI applications, develop IT service management use cases, modernise legacy applications, reduce coding complexity, and improve skills development, and expand data capabilities.

Additionally, HCLTech clients will have access to IBM’s Watsonx teams via HCLTech when building, scaling, and customising their AI solutions.

HCLTech has also pledged that it will train 10,000 engineers and architects on IBM’s Watsonx AI and data platform.

“This expansion of our work with IBM will facilitate rapid exploration of AI’s potential as we create highly differentiated HCLTech offerings using the latest IBM technology,” HCLTech CTO Vija Guntur said. “We plan to embed Watsonx in HCLTech AI Force with generative AI powered solutions to support code modernisation.

“Additionally, we plan to help our clients accelerate generative AI adoption through AI facilitated by Watsonx while enhancing digital skills for enterprise productivity through the implementation of Watsonx Orchestrate.”

HCLTech clients given access to IBM Watsonx platforms

Under this partnership, both IBM and HCLTech clients will also be offered access to several education and training resources based on Watsonx. These include IBM Watsonx.ai, Watsonx.data, Watsonx.governance, the Watsonx Code Assistants, Watsonx Orchestrate and Watsonx Assistant.

IBM Ecosystem services partners general manager Stephen Smith highlighted driving adoption of responsible generative AI solutions is an important component of its collaboration with service partners, such as HCLTech.

“Through this Centre of Excellence, we plan to empower our joint clients to rapidly explore, experiment and engineer generative AI solutions with Watsonx that are designed to meet their current business challenges,” he said.

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