Overview
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology corporation providing AI, cloud computing, and consulting services. IBM Watson is a leading AI platform; IBM Research contributes to Quantum computing, computer vision, and robotics.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Headquarters
Status
Type
Partnerships
Every company IBM has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Relationships
Founders (2)
- Charles Ranlett Flintno longer at company
- Charles Ranlett Flintno longer at company
Former / Previously (2)
- Charles Ranlett Flint Foundersecondary-verified
- Charles Ranlett Flint Foundersecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for IBM.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
IBM on the data-center map
Every verified data center IBM operates that has a mapped coordinate (17 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
IBM data centers (17)
- IBM Quantum Data Center EhningenEhningen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · energized
- IBM Quantum Data Center PoughkeepsiePoughkeepsie, New York, USA · energized
- IBM Quantum System One Kawasaki JapanKawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan · energized
- IBM Quantum System One at Fraunhofer InstituteEhningen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · energized
- IBM Quantum System One at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTroy, New York, USA · energized
- IBM Quantum System One at Yonsei UniversityIncheon, South Korea · energized
- IBM Quantum System Two at Donostia International Physics CenterDonostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain · energized
- IBM Boulder Data CenterBoulder · operating
- IBM Cloud Dallas Multi-Zone Region (us-south)Dallas · operating
- IBM Cloud San Jose Data Center (sjc)San Jose · operating
- IBM Cloud Washington DC Multi-Zone Region (us-east)Ashburn · operating
- IBM Poughkeepsie Data CenterPoughkeepsie · operating
- IBM Research Triangle Park Cloud Resiliency CenterDurham · operating
- IBM Research Triangle Park Data CenterDurham · operating
- IBM Rochester Data CenterRochester · operating
- IBM Southbury Data CenterSouthbury · operating
- IBM Sterling Forest Data CenterTuxedo · operating
AI data centers IBM operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
IBM in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
3 total
Every company IBM has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- ibm x googlewithGoogle117technology—inferred
- ibm x nvidiawithNVIDIA1114technology—inferred
- technology—inferred
Timeline
Every recorded move in IBM’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
New supplierNew supplier: Samsung Electronics
2026-08-23Supply: Samsung 7nm for Power10 from Samsung Electronics
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 19, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Common questions
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Methodology: Claimed (not independently verified) · no sources on file · last reviewed 2026-08-29
Verification posture
Claimed (not independently verified)
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-29
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for IBM.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning IBM from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
IBM Expands AI and Quantum Research With IIT Bombay and IISc
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IBM today announced expansions of two long-standing research collaborations in India: one with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and…
IBM and CoreWeave co-design controls for agent workloads
Agent workload isolation is becoming a practical infrastructure challenge as research teams move beyond training models to running code and testing agents. Systems built for…
IBM Bob gains self-hosted deployment for enterprise AI
The option lets regulated firms keep source code and sensitive data inside their own infrastructure while using AI for software development.
IBM allows on-prem deployment of its Bob agentic development platform
IBM Corp. today announced a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob, its agentic software development platform, allowing enterprises to use artificial intelligence to build and…
IBM Supports NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform With Identity, Storage, And Hybrid Cloud Integrations
IBM is supporting NVIDIA’s newly announced Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system designed to strengthen security and governance for…
Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review: IBM SkillsBuild Training Program Intake Application
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, this notice announces that the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, will submit…
IBM Once Held Nvidia's Spot as Tech's Biggest Name. The Stock Just Crashed 25%. Here's the Comeback Case.
ParityQC bringt mit Twine Optimizer seine Compiler-Technologie auf den Markt
Das Innsbrucker Quanten-Startup ParityQC hat diese Woche den Parity Twine Optimizer gelauncht. Damit macht die Jungfirma ihre Compiler-Technologie als Produkt verfügbar, mit der…
Every Headline RSA-2048 Estimate Assumes Qubits That Work. A Sydney Team Measured What Happens When They Don’t.
On a single IBM chip, a distance-5 surface code lost to a distance-3 even after the defective components were routed around. The headline estimates of what breaking RSA-2048 takes…
A $1 Billion Reason Why IBM Stock Is Up Today
Surface Code Runs Below Threshold on IBM Heavy-Hex – But Only in One Direction at a Time
Researchers showed that error suppression can work on hardware whose geometry was never designed for the surface code – a result that broadens the viable hardware base for…
Labor unions must unite against AI datacenters | Tyler Turner
<p>Workers should start with a moratorium against building until our livelihoods and communities are protected</p><p>For the surging number of Americans who now live alongside…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/ibm.md
- RSS feed: /companies/ibm/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/647d6872-ee53-4603-81c7-4b50026c26d8
- Revision history: /companies/ibm/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
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Heat Index
Serious56/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place IBM against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Broad public reach with 1.5M video views. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 4, 2026
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