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   IBM builds an enterprise AI operating model around governance and hybrid cloud

   SiliconANGLE AI examines IBM’s effort to combine hybrid cloud, mainframe infrastructure and governance into an enterprise AI operating model spanning agent orchestration, trusted data, intelligent operations and governance. The report cites Deloitte research that 54% of organizations plan to put at least 40% of their AI initiatives into production within six months, while only 25% have already reached that threshold. It also covers IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate, watsonx.data, Concert and Sovereign Core offerings, while noting the coverage’s IBM sponsorship.

   SiliconANGLE AI · 🔥 4
2. Oct 8
   torch-spyre brings IBM Spyre in as a native PyTorch device

   IBM's torch-spyre team published a PyTorch blog post describing how it made Spyre, IBM's dataflow AI accelerator for inference, a native PyTorch device. The integration uses PrivateUse1 registration to give Spyre a device identity named "spyre", then maps PyTorch's allocator, stream, event and Inductor compiler abstractions onto Spyre runtime constraints such as ordered queues of typed operations, separate compute and data-movement pipelines, and ahead-of-time compiled programs with fixed layouts. IBM says this gives one path for eager and compiled execution, keeps tensors resident on device="spyre", and cuts launch overhead; no performance or benchmark figures are given, and the source text is truncated near the end.

   PyTorch Blog · 🔥 0

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