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NeuralSeek and IBM watsonx
IBM is a NeuralSeek partner. You can buy NeuralSeek in the IBM Cloud catalog and run it on watsonx.ai models and watsonx Discovery.
Who does what
How watsonx and NeuralSeek fit together
watsonx covers models, data and model governance. NeuralSeek covers what happens to each question and answer.
What it is
IBM watsonx
A model and data platform. watsonx.ai hosts, tunes and serves models, watsonx.data holds your data, and watsonx.governance manages model risk.
NeuralSeek
The answer and agent layer on top. NeuralSeek grounds answers in your content, applies guardrails, scores confidence and logs every answer, using the model you choose, including watsonx.ai.
What governance covers
IBM watsonx
Model-level governance: documenting, evaluating and monitoring models as assets for your model risk team.
NeuralSeek
Answer-level governance: confidence scores, answer provenance, hallucinated-term detection, PII masking and a log of every answer. Agents can also connect to watsonx.governance.
Compared with watsonx Orchestrate
IBM watsonx
An agent and skill orchestration product in the IBM portfolio, built around IBM's catalog of prebuilt skills and the enterprise applications IBM already integrates.
NeuralSeek
Agents built in mAIstro, visually or in NTL, NeuralSeek's template language, with a model chosen for each step. Change a model in configuration without rebuilding the agent.
Where it runs
IBM watsonx
IBM Cloud, IBM Software Hub on OpenShift and IBM hardware, including customer data centers. IBM's on-prem offering is strong.
NeuralSeek
SaaS on IBM Cloud, or the same container on Kubernetes or OpenShift in your own environment, including fully isolated from the network.
When to use each
Match the tool to the job
watsonx and NeuralSeek do different jobs, and they work well together.
Model hosting, tuning and model risk
Use watsonx. Serving and evaluating models, documenting them for model risk and managing your data are what it is built for.
Governed answers on your watsonx models
Add NeuralSeek when your applications need answers grounded in your content, guardrails on every request, a confidence score on every answer and a full log. It uses your existing watsonx models.
Freedom to change models later
NeuralSeek agents pick a model for each step, from watsonx.ai or another supported provider. Moving a step to a different model is a configuration change.
Questions about watsonx and NeuralSeek
Buying, models and how the partnership works.
How do IBM and NeuralSeek work together?
IBM is a NeuralSeek partner. NeuralSeek is in the IBM Cloud catalog, runs on watsonx.ai models and connects to watsonx Discovery and watsonx.governance.
Does NeuralSeek work with IBM models?
Yes. watsonx.ai is a supported LLM provider, and an agent can use an IBM model in one step and another provider's model in the next.
Can we buy it through IBM?
Yes. NeuralSeek is in the IBM Cloud catalog. For on-prem or unlimited licensing, talk to sales.
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