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Publication Date: 2026-06-06 07:08:00
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IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google Cloud announced a major AI partnership centered on a new IBM Google Cloud Practice for enterprise customers.
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The collaboration focuses on combining IBM Consulting and the IBM watsonx AI and data platform with Google Cloud’s Gemini models to help organizations build and scale AI agents in production.
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In parallel, IBM released what it describes as the world’s first quantum centric supercomputing reference architecture and expanded quantum R&D with ETH Zurich, backed by a multi billion dollar quantum investment.
For investors following NYSE:IBM, this move ties together two areas where large enterprises are spending heavily: cloud based AI and advanced computing. The new Google Cloud Practice targets regulated sectors that care about data security, operational resilience, and compliance, areas where AI adoption has been slower and…