By By David Ramel12/18/2025
Publication Date: 2025-12-18 00:00:00
Research: IBM Joins Cloud Giants as Leaders in AI AppDev Platforms
IBM once again joins Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms, reinforcing the continued dominance of these vendors in enterprise cloud-based AI development.
The report evaluates platforms that provide software engineering teams with the tools and workflows needed to design, build, test, deploy and govern AI-embedded applications, including AI assistants, AI agents and multimodal applications. Gartner positions these platforms as a response to mounting pressure on IT and development teams to integrate AI into products without requiring deep machine learning expertise.
Leaders: Big 3 Plus IBM
In the Leaders quadrant, Gartner placed AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft. The three hyperscalers have long defined this space, with IBM maintaining a consistent leadership position alongside them, though usually ranking lower on the two axes of the report, “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision.”
As in most MQ reports, things haven’t changed much since last year’s report.
