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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says there is no AI bubble after all

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Published
December 1, 2025
Duration
1h 9m
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Last updated
Jun 7, 2026

Discusses deep-learning, generative-ai.

Summary

IBM was instrumental to the entire 20th century of computing — but it's a lot harder for most of us to see what it's been up to during this century. That's because it's fully an enterprise company, and CEO Arvind Krishna says that business is booming. But there’s a huge change coming to that business as well, as Watson-style deep learning has given way to…

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IBM was instrumental to the entire 20th century of computing — but it's a lot harder for most of us to see what it's been up to during this century. That's because it's fully an enterprise company, and CEO Arvind Krishna says that business is booming. But there’s a huge change coming to that business as well, as Watson-style deep learning has given way to LLMs and generative AI. Sure, Arvind says IBM got there a little too early. But he doesn’t seem concerned that IBM would be stuck on the sidel

Themes

  • deep-learning
  • generative-ai