Lumen and IBM Collaborate to Unlock Scalable AI for Businesses
Companies to develop AI solutions that bring inferencing to the edge, helping businesses overcome cost and security challenges as they scale AI
DENVER and ARMONK, N.Y., May 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new collaboration to develop enterprise-grade AI solutions at the edge—integrating watsonx, IBM's portfolio of AI products, with Lumen's Edge Cloud infrastructure and network. Together, Lumen and IBM aim to bring powerful, real-time AI inferencing closer to where data is generated, helping companies overcome cost, latency, and security barriers as they scale AI adoption and enhance customer experiences.
Lumen delivers low-latency, high through-put infrastructure that serves as the backbone of the emerging AI economy. The new AI inferencing solutions optimized for the edge will deploy IBM watsonx technology in Lumen's edge data centers and leverage Lumen's multi-cloud architecture, enabling clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and retail to analyze massive volumes of data in near real-time to help minimize latency. This will allow enterprises to develop and deploy AI models closer to the point of data generation, facilitating smarter decision-making while maintaining data control and security, plus accelerating AI innovation.
"Enterprise leaders don't just want to explore AI, they need to scale it quickly, cost effectively and securely," said Ryan Asdourian, Chief Marketing and Strategy officer at Lumen. "By combining IBM's AI innovation with Lumen's powerful network edge, we're turning vision into action—making it easier for businesses to tap into real-time intelligence wherever their data lives, accelerate innovation, and deliver smarter, faster customer experiences."
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