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Deployed the Quantum System Two in Chicago
IBM's first quantum computer in Illinois is running behind street-level windows at Hyde Park Labs on Chicago's South Side. The machine, an IBM Quantum System Two with a 120-qubit Nighthawk r2 processor and 218 tunable couplers, anchors the National Quantum Algorithm Center. IBM has not said when it will move to the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park.
Updated 2 days ago
Operates Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and the virtual private endpoint gateways
IBM Cloud customers can now send Red Hat AI Inference requests over IBM's private network instead of the public internet. The API is unchanged except for the hostname: private.us-east.rhai.ibm.com replaces us-east.rhai.ibm.com.
Updated Nov 2
As of September 2026: Co-developer and publisher of the Lunar Foundation Model
NASA is targeting 2028 for humans to walk on the Moon again. Before astronauts land, scientists must find ice in shadowed craters and identify safe terrain. On September 11, that mapping work got a new tool: an open-source AI model built by IBM and NASA.
Updated Sep 11
As of August 2026: Released the new models
IBM says two new models turn spoken English into text more than twelve thousand times faster than real time — about 3.5 hours of audio per second on one Nvidia H200 GPU. Each compact Granite Speech 5.0 model packs just 470 million parameters.
Updated Aug 26
As of July 2026: Committed to Trump Accounts contributions
The program launched July 4, 2026, opening for contributions on America's 250th birthday. Treasury deposited $1,000 into 1.4 million eligible accounts, committing $1.4 billion in total; 6 million children are now enrolled.
Updated Jul 7
As of June 2026: Former McDonald's AI partner, test ended in 2024
McDonald's put a Google-built AI voice back at the drive-thru speaker box. Its first try, with IBM, became a viral punchline and was pulled in 2024.
Updated Jun 11
As of May 2026: Strategic partner collaborating with Arm to bring Arm software environments to enterprise mainframes
For 35 years, Arm Holdings sold blueprints, not chips. On May 6, 2026, Arm formalized a different future: a $15 billion direct chip-sales business by fiscal 2031, anchored by an in-house data center processor called the Arm AGI CPU.
Updated May 31
As of May 2026: Stock down ~33% in February 2026; defending mainframe and consulting business
An estimated 220 billion lines of COBOL code still run in production every day, processing 95% of ATM transactions and roughly $3 trillion in daily commerce. For decades, understanding and modernizing that code has required large teams of specialized consultants working for months or years. On February 23, Anthropic published a playbook showing how Claude Code can automate these labor-intensive tasks—mapping dependencies, documenting workflows, identifying risks across thousands of files.
Updated May 29
As of May 2026: Pioneered neuromorphic computing with TrueNorth and NorthPole chips
For decades, simulating the physics of airplane wings, nuclear weapons, or weather systems required warehouse-sized supercomputers consuming megawatts of power. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have now demonstrated that brain-inspired neuromorphic chips can solve these same equations (the partial differential equations underlying nearly all physics simulations) with a fraction of the energy.
As of May 2026: Strategic acquirer building a hybrid cloud and AI platform via M&A
IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent, the data‑streaming company built around Apache Kafka, in an all‑cash deal for about $11 billion, or $31 per share, a roughly 34% premium to its last close. IBM says Confluent's real‑time event streaming and governance capabilities will anchor a new "smart data platform" that connects, cleans, and orchestrates data across hybrid clouds for generative and agentic AI applications. The deal positions IBM as both an AI model provider and the owner of the data plumbing that makes enterprise AI work.
Updated May 10
As of May 2026: Lead technology partner and systems integrator for Riyadh Air’s AI-native architecture
Riyadh Air, Saudi Arabia's startup flag carrier, is what IBM and the airline call the world's first "AI-native" airline — built from day one around AI-driven, cloud-based systems, not retrofitted legacy IT. Launched in March 2023 under Vision 2030, the airline has ordered large fleets from Boeing and Airbus and aims to connect over 100 destinations and serve millions of travelers by 2030 through Riyadh's planned mega-hub.
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