IBM lays out Db2 AI roadmap: 3x query speedups, Genius Hub, watsonx integrations
craigmullins · x · 2026-10-28
A slide from IBM TechXchange 2026 summarizes IBM's plan to scale AI with Db2: (1) enterprise productivity via a new Db2 Genius Hub and AI Database Assistant with agentic capabilities; (2) engine performance with an AI-based query optimizer promising up to 3x faster queries; (3) app builder tooling — ML model training/deployment via SQL/Python/R, vector store and RAG, plus LangChain, LlamaIndex, and MCP Server integrations; (4) watsonx.data and watsonx.ai integrations connecting the lakehouse to LLMs.
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