IBM watsonx.ai vs. TensorFlow

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IBM watsonx.ai
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Watsonx.ai is part of the IBM watsonx platform that brings together new generative AI capabilities, powered by foundation models, and traditional machine learning into a studio spanning the AI lifecycle. Watsonx.ai can be used to train, validate, tune, and deploy generative AI, foundation models, and machine learning capabilities, and build AI applications with less time and data.
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TensorFlow
Score 8.4 out of 10
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TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. It was originally developed by Google.N/A
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Additional DetailsGet started building differentiated AI assets with watsonx.ai, our studio for generative AI, foundation models and machine learning. Scale up your AI use cases as needed with integrations to watsonx.data, a fit-for-purpose data store built on an open data lakehouse architecture, and watsonx.governance (coming soon), a toolkit to accelerate responsible, transparent and explainable AI workflows. Pricing for watsonx.ai includes: model inference per 1000 tokens and ML tools and ML runtimes based on capacity unit hours.
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User Testimonials
IBM watsonx.aiTensorFlow
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
Based on my experience, I can recommend that you have a good AI management system in your company account, and if you have the money at your disposal to invest in IBM watsonx, do not hesitate. We are using API models to obviously build a work environment with sustainable flow as well. We have AI and ML lifecycle support.
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Open Source
TensorFlow is great for most deep learning purposes. This is especially true in two domains: 1. Computer vision: image classification, object detection and image generation via generative adversarial networks 2. Natural language processing: text classification and generation. The good community support often means that a lot of off-the-shelf models can be used to prove a concept or test an idea quickly. That, and Google's promotion of Colab means that ideas can be shared quite freely. Training, visualizing and debugging models is very easy in TensorFlow, compared to other platforms (especially the good old Caffe days). In terms of productionizing, it's a bit of a mixed bag. In our case, most of our feature building is performed via Apache Spark. This means having to convert Parquet (columnar optimized) files to a TensorFlow friendly format i.e., protobufs. The lack of good JVM bindings mean that our projects end up being a mix of Python and Scala. This makes it hard to reuse some of the tooling and support we wrote in Scala. This is where MXNet shines better (though its Scala API could do with more work).
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Pros
IBM
  • it has many Reliable tools for algorithm modeling visualization.
  • Highly secured, Integrated and all data optimized in one management
  • Easily prepared and extract data from document.
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Open Source
  • A vast library of functions for all kinds of tasks - Text, Images, Tabular, Video etc.
  • Amazing community helps developers obtain knowledge faster and get unblocked in this active development space.
  • Integration of high-level libraries like Keras and Estimators make it really simple for a beginner to get started with neural network based models.
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Cons
IBM
  • APIs integration could be improved.
  • steep learnings for tuning AI models
  • performance lag
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Open Source
  • RNNs are still a bit lacking, compared to Theano.
  • Cannot handle sequence inputs
  • Theano is perhaps a bit faster and eats up less memory than TensorFlow on a given GPU, perhaps due to element-wise ops. Tensorflow wins for multi-GPU and “compilation” time.
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Usability
IBM
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Open Source
Support of multiple components and ease of development.
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Open Source
Community support for TensorFlow is great. There's a huge community that truly loves the platform and there are many examples of development in TensorFlow. Often, when a new good technique is published, there will be a TensorFlow implementation not long after. This makes it quick to ally the latest techniques from academia straight to production-grade systems. Tooling around TensorFlow is also good. TensorBoard has been such a useful tool, I can't imagine how hard it would be to debug a deep neural network gone wrong without TensorBoard.
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Implementation Rating
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Open Source
Use of cloud for better execution power is recommended.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
IBM watsonx.ai is more enterprise oriented providing more options regarding on-premises setup and other compliance issues. Better suited for the corporate world.
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Open Source
Keras is built on top of TensorFlow, but it is much simpler to use and more Python style friendly, so if you don't want to focus on too many details or control and not focus on some advanced features, Keras is one of the best options, but as far as if you want to dig into more, for sure TensorFlow is the right choice
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • We have already met our objectives in creating a supportive environment.
  • This open-source tool increases the financial feasibility of the workflow.
  • High price.
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Open Source
  • Learning is s bit difficult takes lot of time.
  • Developing or implementing the whole neural network is time consuming with this, as you have to write everything.
  • Once you have learned this, it make your job very easy of getting the good result.
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Screenshot of Foundation models available in watsonx.ai. Clients have access to IBM selected open source models from Hugging Face, as well as other third-party models, and a family of IBM-developed foundation models of different sizes and architectures.Screenshot of Prompt Lab in watsonx.ai where AI builders can work with foundation models and build prompts using prompt engineering techniques in watsonx.ai to support a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) type tasks.Screenshot of Tuning Studio in watsonx.ai where AI builders can tune foundation models with labeled data for better performance and accuracy.Screenshot of Data science toolkit in watsonx.ai where AI builders can build machine learning models automatically with model training, development, visual modeling, and synthetic data generation.