Technology and consulting company whose research helped found statistical machine translation, now selling watsonx AI.
IBM, founded in 1911, is one of the oldest technology companies still operating. Its research labs pioneered statistical machine translation in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the Candide system, work that shaped the field for two decades. Today IBM sells hybrid cloud, consulting and the watsonx AI platform, including its Granite family of open models, and its consulting arm delivers AI projects for large enterprises worldwide. LocStock tracks it as an enterprise AI and services indicator.