Jonathan Ross

Absolutely.

It's an extraordinary opportunity for both of us.

IBM is going to have their sellers sell Grok SKU.

And so now you'll be able to directly access our speed.

The advantages that we offer, you could think of it a little bit like offering broadband in the era where dial-up wasn't fully rolled out and people were still trying to connect to the Internet.

Our LPUs are just significantly faster.

But we also keep the cost down.

Just imagine if you were to offer broadband and you charged more per bit of data that was sent over the line, it would be uneconomical.

Broadband increases the demand.

With agentic use cases, it's particularly important to reduce the speed.

You don't want to ask a question, wait 10 minutes later and come back.

You'd rather get the answer in under a minute.

So the WatsonX API is available for anyone to use today.

It'll be invisible to most users.

It'll simply work.

We have a compatible API, and this is something we've been working on.

We will also work on some lower-level integrations with VLLM, which is a technology that IBM is very deeply involved in.

But it should just be transparent.

You should just get more speed.

Just imagine one day you come home, you had dial-up, and now you have broadband, and it costs less.