watsonx Assistant
IBM's general-purpose conversational AI platform for building customer-facing and employee-facing chatbots and virtual assistants; not IBM i-specific.
What you can build with it
- Web chat
- Voice assistants
- Links into contact-center and messaging channels
Does it work with IBM i?
Not out of the box. It is a general-purpose product used across many industries. An IBM i shop can still put a chat front end over IBM i or Db2 for i data, but that takes custom integration work.
Related Terms
watsonx
IBM's platform for AI and data, spanning watsonx.ai (foundation models and generative AI), watsonx.data (data store), and watsonx.governance (AI governance), with watsonx Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate built on top.
watsonx Orchestrate
IBM's AI agent and automation platform for orchestrating multi-step business workflows across enterprise applications. Since August 2026 it can launch IBM Bob from its Create an agent dialog through a Build with Bob preview, but it still ships no IBM i or Db2 for i connector.