By @IBMResearch
Publication Date: 2025-11-18 13:00:00
The next leap in AI is not going to be made by a single company or a single lab, proclaimed Griselda Bonilla, senior technical staff member at IBM Research. “It’s going to be done with collaboration.”
Standing center stage in the Thomas J. Watson Research Center’s auditorium, Bonilla delivered these opening remarks as she kicked off the sixth annual AI Hardware Forum, sponsored by the IBM Research AI Hardware Center. What followed was a day of presentations and panels led by AI researchers from industry and academia, centered around building open software that supports a heterogeneous hardware ecosystem for the future of AI.
Since its launch in 2019, the AI Hardware Center’s goal has been to help realize AI’s potential, and that work is proceeding apace. Its biggest victory to date has been the launch of IBM’s Spyre AI accelerator for IBM z17 and Power11 systems. Evolving out of prototypes from the Center, this dedicated AI system-on-chip was developed in partnership…