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Maryam Ashoori

VP of Product and Engineering, Head of Product, IBM watsonx.governance, and IBM OpenPages

  • 1 episode on Chain of Thought
  • 4 topics covered
  • 1 full transcript
  • Apr 2025 first on the show
Maryam Ashoori

At the time of the conversation, Maryam Ashoori was Head of Product for watsonx AI at IBM, with more than fifteen years in data-driven technologies. On Chain of Thought she explained how watsonx simplifies the AI stack and shared findings from a survey of 1,000 developers about the state of enterprise AI.

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Latest episode with Maryam Ashoori · EP 17

Inside IBM's watsonx: Building Enterprise AI That Ships | Dr. Maryam Ashoori

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EP 17 Inside IBM's watsonx: Building Enterprise AI That Ships | Dr. Maryam Ashoori

  • Maryam Ashoori frames watsonx around the three enterprise challenges she sees consistently: responsible (trustworthy) implementation of AI, cost-performance optimization, and capturing the ROI of generative AI through automation. These were the guiding principles for the platform’s design. Episode takeaways
  • On models, watsonx’s bet is optionality over a single model: state-of-the-art open-source models available the same day they release, commercial models via partnerships with Meta and Mistral (Mistral Large), and the ability to import your own. Ashoori’s conviction: “one single model is not the solution” — it’s mix-and-match across sizes, architectures, and license terms. Episode takeaways
  • IBM trains its Granite models from scratch so it can stand behind them — documenting training-data lineage, filtering toxic and copyrighted content “to best of our knowledge,” being transparent about how they’re trained, and providing client indemnification. Ashoori ties this to customers in regulated sectors like finance, insurance, and health care. Episode takeaways

In their words

ROI of generative AI, bringing this generative AI potential to every single of our enterprise, which is really taking advantage of automation to bring that level of productivity to every single corner. So these three areas optimization, ensuring a responsible implementation of the technology, and bringing automation to every single corner of enterprise has been the driving force for what we are designing as part of the platform for Watson X.

Maryam Ashoori Inside IBM's watsonx: Building Enterprise AI That Ships | Dr. Maryam Ashoori · 2:58

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