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IBM Launches Domain Specific Agentic AI Initiative

IBM is expanding its artificial intelligence offerings with a major initiative focused on agentic AI, unveiled at the THINK 2025 conference. The company is introducing a suite of domain-specific AI agents and tools designed to help enterprises move beyond basic AI assistants and embrace more sophisticated, autonomous AI agents. These agents can be integrated using watsonx Orchestrate, a framework added to IBM's integration portfolio. The goal is to make it easier for businesses to build, deploy, and benefit from AI agents in real-world applications.

IBM's new agentic AI capabilities include an AI Agent Catalog, offering a centralized hub for pre-built agents, and Agent Connect, a partner program for third-party developers. Domain-specific agent templates for sales, procurement, and HR are also being provided, along with a no-code agent builder for business users and an agent development toolkit for developers. A multi-agent orchestrator enables agent-to-agent collaboration, and Agent Ops (in private preview) offers telemetry and observability.

The core aim is to bridge the gap between AI experimentation and tangible business benefits. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna believes that over a billion new applications will be built with generative AI in the coming years, emphasizing AI's potential to drive productivity, cost savings, and revenue scaling. IBM's initiative directly addresses the challenges enterprises face in achieving a return on investment from their AI projects, including data silos and hybrid infrastructure complexities. These new tools and integration capabilities intend to facilitate AI agent adoption across various vendors and platforms.
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  • techstrong.ai: IBM at its annual THINK 2025 conference today added a suite of domain-specific artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can be integrated using a framework, dubbed watsonx Orchestrate, that it is adding to its integration portfolio.
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  • techstrong.ai: IBM at its annual THINK 2025 conference today added a suite of domain-specific artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can be integrated using a framework, dubbed watsonx Orchestrate, that it is adding to its integration portfolio.
  • www.infoworld.com: IBM has updated its AI platform for workflow and task automation, watsonx Orchestrate (WXO), with new agent-building and observability capabilities to help developers more quickly build agents that can take on repetitive tasks in the enterprise. CEO Arvind Krishna said the updates underpin the company’s shift from AI assistants to for workflow and task automation. The company is aiming to capture a larger share of the market for building generative AI applications as enterprises double their AI investments over the next few years, he said at a media briefing ahead of the company’s annual Think conference.
  • Techzine Global: IBM is introducing new hybrid technologies to help companies scale up AI. The solutions help build and implement AI agents using business data.
  • siliconangle.com: IBM unveils capabilities meant to accelerate AI agent adoption
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  • Verdict: The partnership aims to drive a “new era†of multi-agentic, AI-driven productivity and efficiency across various enterprise operations.
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  • Techzine Global: During Knowledge 2025 , ServiceNow launched AI Control Tower, a centralized control center for managing, securing, and optimizing AI agents, models, and workflows.
  • the-decoder.com: IBM says AI and AI agents have cut hundreds of HR jobs
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  • AI Accelerator Institute: Take a look at IBM & Oracle’s watsonx Orchestrate and Granite AI on OCI for autonomous AI workflows with low‑code automation.
  • Source: Microsoft is helping retailers and consumer goods organizations identify the most valuable agentic AI use cases
  • Salesforce: From Apps to Agents: How Agentic AI Will Bring the Next Great Wave of Business Innovation
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