Collaboration to provide specific customer solutions to Saudi Arabia made up of IBM Watsonx infrastructure products and Lenovo infrastructure.
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – February 9, 2025 – IBM and Lenovo announced today to Leap 2025 A planned extension of their strategic technological partnership designed to help evolve the impact of generative AI for customers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
IDC expects world annual expenditure on AI -centered systems to exceed $ 300 billion by 2026, with numerous leading organizations in Saudi Arabia by exploring and investing in cases of use AI generators while they are preparing for the emergence of a world “ everywhere of ia ”.1
Based on their 20 -year partnership, IBM and Lenovo will collaborate to provide AI solutions made up of IBM Watsonx portfolio technologies of AI products, including the open source of Saudi data and the authority of the ‘ Artificial Intelligence (SDAIA) Arab model in large language (Allam)and Lenovo infrastructure. These solutions should help customers from the government and the Kingdom companies to accelerate their use of AI to improve public services and make data -based decisions in areas such as fraud detection, public security, service customer, modernization of the code and IT operations.
“Today’s announcement represents an important step in the long -standing relationship between IBM and Lenovo,” said Giovanni Di Filippo, president of EMEA, group of infrastructure solutions in Lenovo. “We are happy to deepen our partnership to provide IBM IBM generating offers with Lenovo’s infrastructure solutions for Lenovo infrastructure solutions for site premises and the cloud to provide customers in Arabia Saudi solutions designed to meet their unique needs in this fasting market.
Organizations in Saudi Arabia are currently able to access Allam via Watsonx; Use advanced AI capabilities to form, adjust and deploy Allam; And execute their workloads in AI on the Lenovo infrastructure for on -site cases and use of the cloud. The new solutions should provide customers with additional means to exploit the power of generative AI with an approach based on transparency, confidence and choice.
“IBM and Lenovo have a rich history of joint innovation and partnership that covers two decades,” said Ayman Alrashed, regional vice-president, IBM Saudi. “We are impatiently awaiting this new collaboration to bring together Lenovo infrastructure offers and IBM IBM portfolio, which uses small and open source models for specific use cases and geographic requirements. Together, we will lead an even greater value for our mutual customers in the kingdom. »»
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1 Digital transformation navigation led by AI at the IDC SAUDI Arabia CIO 2024 summit
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