IBM and LTIMindtree Launch AI Center of Excellence in India to Boost Generative AI Adoption

Global tech consulting firm LTIMindtree is partnering with IBM to establish a Generative AI Center of Excellence in India. The center will leverage IBM’s watsonx AI and data platform and LTIMindtree’s engineering skills to advance AI technologies and help businesses. The collaboration will offer services including data and machine learning model customization, full-stack engineering, and AI assistants. Nachiket Deshpande, COO of LTIMindtree, and Kate Woolley, General Manager of IBM Ecosystem, highlighted the role of open innovation in driving AI technology growth and solving business challenges.

LTIMindtree and IBM: A Joint Venture in Generative AI

LTIMindtree, a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, has announced a partnership with IBM to establish a Generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) in India. This joint venture aims to combine the capabilities of IBM’s watsonx AI and data platform with the engineering skills of LTIMindtree. The CoE will focus on creating solutions to expedite the adoption of generative AI by clients.

The concept of open innovation is central to this collaboration. Open innovation is a growth driver for enterprise AI technology, enabling organizations to apply AI-infused solutions to business challenges. This principle is a key component of the partnership between LTIMindtree and IBM.

Comprehensive Suite of Services

The CoE plans to offer a comprehensive suite of services, leveraging LTIMindtree’s expertise in data and machine learning model customization and full-stack engineering. These services will be combined with IBM watsonx technology, including watsonx.ai, watsonx.data, and watsonx.governance, and AI assistants. The center, located in India, will focus on building point solutions to accelerate clients’ generative AI adoption journeys.

Benefits to Clients

This collaboration is expected to offer various benefits to clients, including access to IBM watsonx.governance, watsonx.data, and watsonx.ai. LTIMindtree will offer a watsonx.governance integration with the Canvas.ai platform, providing a collaborative enterprise-ready toolkit that enables organizations to strategically incorporate AI governance frameworks throughout the entire AI lifecycle. The CoE will also offer an enterprise data modernization and warehouse augmentation service powered by watsonx.data. This service will provide the framework and tools for data warehouse consumers to augment the performance of their existing data warehouse capabilities using the power of IBM watsonx.data and LTIMindtree’s expertise in crafting tailored solutions.

Expanding the Scope of Generative AI Applications

The Center of Excellence aims to play a pivotal role in expanding the scope of generative AI applications for digital initiatives of clients. It plans to utilize the IBM watsonx platform and AI assistants, machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing, and conversational AI to augment end user experience.

About LTIMindtree

LTIMindtree is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises across industries to reimagine business models, accelerate innovation, and maximize growth by harnessing digital technologies. As a digital transformation partner to more than 700 clients, LTIMindtree brings extensive domain and technology expertise to help drive superior competitive differentiation, customer experiences, and business outcomes in a converging world. Powered by 81,000+ talented and entrepreneurial professionals across more than 30 countries, LTIMindtree — a Larsen & Toubro Group company — combines the industry-acclaimed strengths of erstwhile Larsen and Toubro Infotech and Mindtree in solving the most complex business challenges and delivering transformation at scale.

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