For years, the main job of an AI research cluster was training models. That job is getting broader. Once teams use reinforcement learning (RL) and start testing agents, the same infrastructure has to run code that models produce, call tools, read and write storage and connect to other services. Pure training never raised the question of where that code should run and what it should be allowed to reach. Agent work does.

IBM Research is working through that question with CoreWeave, the GPU cloud provider. Brian Belgodere, a senior technical staff member at IBM, described the collaboration in an interview with theCUBE Research's Dave Vellante and John Furrier at the Fully Connected event. The interview was broadcast on theCUBE, the livestreaming studio of SiliconANGLE Media. theCUBE is a paid media partner for the event, and CoreWeave sponsored its coverage. SiliconANGLE says sponsors have no editorial control over its content.

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IBM has released a self-hosted version of IBM Bob, its agentic software development platform. Companies can now run AI-assisted development and application modernization on their own infrastructure instead of sending code to an outside service. The option covers on-premises data centers, private clouds, sovereign clouds and fully air-gapped environments. A sovereign cloud keeps data under a specific country's or region's jurisdiction. An air-gapped environment is cut off from external networks entirely.

The target customer is clear. These are organizations whose source code is sensitive, whose data is regulated, or whose systems are too critical to expose to an externally hosted AI tool. IBM is pitching the release to financial services, government, healthcare and critical infrastructure, and to any business worried about protecting its intellectual property.

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