By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-05-06 18:57:00
IBM Corp. entered Think 2026 with a different posture than the market is used to. In this artificial intelligence cycle, the company is leaning hard into openness and ecosystem – and doing it without the usual proprietary overtones.
According to Chairman and Chief Executive Arvind Krishna (pictured), that choice is purposeful. It’s also a sign that IBM’s CEO has a clear vision of where the puck is going and the approach IBM must take to win in this era. According to Krishna, foundation models are in a game of leapfrog and must become interchangeable over time. Value is shifting to the platform layer to ensure governance, integration, and the ability to move workloads and data without getting trapped by one vendor’s propriety.
This Special Breaking Analysis is based on an analyst “ask me anything” with Krishna at IBM’s annual conference in Boston this year. The session covered where IBM is constrained, what metrics matter, how IBM is allocating resources, the…
