IBM Partners With OpenAI To Put GPT-5.6 Inside Its Consulting Business

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    "excerpt": "IBM's enterprise AI story is less about one model supplier than a pile of delivery deals and consulting assets, stitched together with cloud partnerships, all aimed at making AI usable inside large companies. IBM doesn't need to pretend it has one clean AI bet. It has the opposite: a crowded stack of models and consulting tools, backed by cloud partners, built for companies that can't just hand sensitive work to a chatbot and hope procurement signs off. If you're buying AI inside a bank or a telecoms group - a government agency too - the model is only one part of the problem. That's the easy part. The harder work is wiring it into old systems without breaking security, workflow or accountability. Barron's reported this week that IBM signed a $240 million multiyear deal with Together AI, the California startup that helps companies run open AI models. The agreement covers Nvidia HGX B300 systems on IBM Cloud. It's aimed at high-performance workloads and open-source model inference, with launch expected in early 2027. That is the infrastructure piece. It gives IBM another way to serve clients that want cheaper or more controllable model deployment than a single closed-model vendor can offer. IBM's own materials put the consulting layer around that hardware. IBM says Consulting Advantage, its AI-powered delivery platform, equips nearly 150,000 IBM consultants with AI assistants...",
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