Custom Python code can be deployed on IBM watsonx.ai via Python Functions and AI Services. This post describes how resources like memory can be defined for custom execution environments. watsonx.a...
Unstructured Data Preparation for Generative AI
IBM has open-sourced another great tool for Generative AI engineers and developers. With the Data Prep Kit data can be prepared for Fine-tuning and Retrieval Augmented Generation. Data Prep Kit is...
Evolving Standards for agentic Systems: MCP and ACP
Agentic systems leverage multiple agents and multiple tools. These agents and tools can be developed and hosted by different providers. To allow inter-agent communication and to access different da...
SmolDocling: Vision-Language Model for Document Conversion
SmolDocling is an ultra-compact, open-source Vision Language Model for document conversion including OCR. This post summarizes the key features and demonstrates how to get started. SmolDocling is ...
AI Agents and InstructLab based Fine-tuning
My colleague Thomas Harrer interviewed me about agentic systems and fine-tuning. Below is the recording and the transcript. Watch Let’s Create Technology Talk with Niklas Heidloff about Artificial...
Deploying Embedding Models on watsonx.ai
Watsonx.ai provides various Large Language Models and Embedding Models out of the box. Models that are not supported by the watsonx.ai inference stack can be deployed via Python Functions. Watsonx...
watsonx Orchestrate Agent Routing to Agents
Recently watsonx Orchestrate has added support for agentic capabilities. Orchestration agents can route to assistants, skills and agents. This post focusses on the routing to agents and their tools...
watsonx Orchestrate Agent Routing to Skills
Recently watsonx Orchestrate has added support for agentic capabilities. Orchestration agents can route to assistants, skills and agents. This post focusses on the routing to skills, skill flows an...
watsonx Orchestrate Agent Routing to Assistants
Recently watsonx Orchestrate has added support for agentic capabilities. Orchestration agents can route to assistants, skills and agents. This post focusses on the routing between assistants and ac...
Generating Agentic Applications with watsonx.ai Agent Lab
Watsonx.ai Agent Lab is a low-code tool for building and deploying agents. It can also be used by pro-code developers to generate code for agentic applications which can be extended and optimized. ...