IBM Watson X Powers Masters AI
Key Points
- IBM’s 25‑year partnership with the Masters leveraged the new IBM Watson X platform to run the entire AI lifecycle for the tournament’s digital experience, from data capture to model governance.
- The Watson X workflow flow included Watson X Data for massive data collection and annotation, Watson X .ai for building, training, testing, and tuning machine‑learning and generative‑AI models, and Watson X .g for automated monitoring and explainable results.
- A recent update to Watson X .ai introduces a “bring‑your‑own‑model” (BYOM) feature, letting users import and deploy custom foundation models alongside IBM‑curated and third‑party open‑source models.
- Deploying BYOM models on‑premises keeps the models near the organization’s data, reduces risk exposure, and still benefits from Watson X’s enterprise‑grade governance and integration capabilities.
- IBM highlighted its continued commitment to sustainability with the 2023 IBM Impact Report, marking 34 years of public environmental reporting and outlining 21 climate, energy, and conservation goals.
Full Transcript
# IBM Watson X Powers Masters AI **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mndq1aIEbvg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mndq1aIEbvg) **Duration:** 00:04:06 ## Summary - IBM’s 25‑year partnership with the Masters leveraged the new IBM Watson X platform to run the entire AI lifecycle for the tournament’s digital experience, from data capture to model governance. - The Watson X workflow flow included Watson X Data for massive data collection and annotation, Watson X .ai for building, training, testing, and tuning machine‑learning and generative‑AI models, and Watson X .g for automated monitoring and explainable results. - A recent update to Watson X .ai introduces a “bring‑your‑own‑model” (BYOM) feature, letting users import and deploy custom foundation models alongside IBM‑curated and third‑party open‑source models. - Deploying BYOM models on‑premises keeps the models near the organization’s data, reduces risk exposure, and still benefits from Watson X’s enterprise‑grade governance and integration capabilities. - IBM highlighted its continued commitment to sustainability with the 2023 IBM Impact Report, marking 34 years of public environmental reporting and outlining 21 climate, energy, and conservation goals. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mndq1aIEbvg&t=0s) **IBM Watson X Powers Masters AI** - IBM Watson X managed the entire AI lifecycle—from massive data collection and model training to deployment and governance—to power the 2023 Masters’ digital experience and mobile app. ## Full Transcript
IBM Watson X at the Masters bring your
own model capabilities on Watson x. and
the 2023 IBM impact report all on this
episode of IBN Tech
[Music]
now at the Masters story tradition meets
state-of-the-art technology through a
partnership spanning more than 25 years
IBM has helped the August National Golf
Club capture analyze distribute and use
data to bring fans closer to the action
culminating in the AI powered Master's
digital experience and mobile app the
Masters has long relied on IBM to manage
its data application and workloads
across on premises servers and multiple
clouds but this year marks an important
Evolution the entire AI life cycle was
managed on the AI and data platform IBM
Watson X there are many different
intricate facets of this AI life cycle
but essentially it began with Watson x.
data collecting a massive amount of data
before preparing and annotating it then
Watson x. a was used to develop evaluate
train and test machine learning and
generative AI models after tuning and
testing the models Watson x. a provided
a variety of ways to deploy them to
production and evaluate models within
the deployment space finally watsen x.g
governance provided automated monitoring
of deployed machine learning and
generative AI models and facilitated
transparent explainable results the
result was a seamless experience at one
of the best sporting events of the year
to dive deeper into the technology and
what went on behind the scenes click the
link in the description of this
video next up since its release in July
2023 IBM Watson x. has been enabling
businesses to train validate tune and
deploy AI models now we're excited to
announce a new feature update to Watson
x. a that delivers an open framework
through a bring your own model
capability there are many reasons to
import a custom Foundation model all
driven by the unique needs of your
organization in addition to working with
Foundation models that are curated by
IBM including open source third party
and IBM developed Watson x foundation
models you can now upload and deploy
your own custom Foundation model to
accomplish a range of industry or domain
specific generative AI tasks once the
model is imported and deployed you can
interact with it as you would with other
models in the Watson x. Studio you can
also leverage it within your
applications and have access to the plat
form's Enterprise ready governance
features the best part is that with the
on premises solution you're bringing the
model closer to where your data resides
mitigating your risk exposure to learn
more about bring your own model on
Watson x. hit the link below to wrap
things up IBM continues to be a leader
in driving sustainability for our
business our communities and our clients
and the release of the 2023 IBM impact
report is a continuation of a 34-year
history of annual public environmental
reporting as a part of our Environmental
Management System we have established 21
goals around energy and climate change
conservation and biodiversity pollution
prevention and Waste Management areas we
continue to make progress towards these
goals in the 2023 impact report Flex
among the findings we reduced our energy
use by 6.6% in 2023 from 2022 we
implemented 675 new energy conservation
projects across more than locations we
increase cooling efficiency of our data
centers by 16.4% versus 2019 and we
increase the use of renewable
electricity which now represents 70.6%
of the electricity used in IBM
operations to learn more and download
the report hit the link below thanks so
much for joining me today for this
episode of IBM Tech now if you're
interested in learning more about the
topics I've covered make sure you
explore the links in the description of
this video and again please don't forget
to subscribe to our Channel this stay up
to date on what's going on in Tech now
[Music]