Initial Watson was sort of a mess. But a lot of the Watson-related tech is integ...

mikalauskas · 2025-12-03T01:33:52 1764725632

What related tech and what products, interesting to read about them

ghaff · 2025-12-03T01:50:43 1764726643

Baked into a lot a Red Hat products including Ansible and RHEL. Not that directly involved any longer. Probably read up on watsonx.ai.

hn_throwaway_99 · 2025-12-03T01:36:33 1764725793

Such as? I'm curious because I know a bunch of people who did a lot of Watson-related work and it was all a dead end, but that was 2020-ish timeframe.

ghaff · 2025-12-03T02:02:02 1764727322

IBM did a lot of pretty fragmented and often PR-adjacent work. And getting into some industry-specific (e.g. healthcare) things that didn't really work out. But my understanding is that it's better standardized and embedded in products these days.

hn_throwaway_99 · 2025-12-03T03:00:01 1764730801

Not to be rude, but that didn't answer my question.

Taking a look at IBM's Watson page, https://www.ibm.com/watson, it appears to me that they basically started over with "watsonx" in 2023 (after ChatGPT was released) and what's there now is basically just a hat tip to their previous branding.

ghaff · 2025-12-04T16:25:51 1764865551

I think that's essentially accurate even if some work from IBM Research in particular did carry over. As I recall my timelines, yes, IBM rebooted and reorganized Watson to a significant degree while continuing to use a derivation of the original branding (and took advantage of Red Hat platforms/products).