IBM Watson
IBM's AI and data platform brand, which has evolved from its Jeopardy-winning origins into an enterprise AI and cloud services offering focused on business automation and hybrid cloud.
IBM Watson gained fame by defeating Jeopardy champions in 2011 but struggled to commercialize its early promise. IBM has since pivoted Watson toward enterprise automation, offering AI-powered tools for customer service, IT operations, and financial compliance. The company's watsonx platform, launched in 2023, provides enterprise access to foundation models including open-source and IBM's own Granite models. IBM's AI revenue exceeded $5 billion in 2024. The company positions itself for regulated industries where data governance and compliance are paramount.
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Capex (Capital Expenditure)
Long-term investment spending by companies on physical assets like data centers, GPU clusters, and networking infrastructure — the backbone of AI deployment at scale.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's conversational AI assistant, launched in November 2022, which catalyzed the current generative AI boom by demonstrating the capabilities of large language models to a mainstream audience.
Data Center
A facility housing computer systems and infrastructure used to process, store, and distribute data — increasingly built specifically for AI training and inference workloads.
Enterprise AI Adoption
The rate at which businesses integrate AI technologies into their operations, measured across functions like customer service, software development, marketing, and supply chain management.
Frontier Model
The most capable and advanced AI models at any given time, typically trained with the largest compute budgets and achieving state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks.
Generative AI
AI systems that can create new content — text, images, code, audio, video — rather than simply analyzing or classifying existing data. Large language models and diffusion models are the primary architectures.
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