By Ahn Shang-hee
Publication Date: 2026-10-02 00:12:00
IBM has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI)-based software development platform that corporations can run directly on their internal infrastructure. The key is enabling the use of AI in an environment controlled by corporations without moving sensitive source code and regulated data to external AI services.
On the 2nd, IBM said it released a self-hosted deployment version that allows use of “IBM Bob” in on-premises and private clouds, sovereign clouds, and environments isolated from external networks that corporations directly control. IBM Bob is a software development platform that applies agentic AI across software development and modernization, going beyond simple code generation.
Recently, corporations have been actively pursuing AI-based software development, but in heavily regulated industries such as finance and the public sector, providing data to AI services itself has become an obstacle. That is because there is a possibility that corporations’ proprietary source…
