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Jun 4, 2026 4:00 PM

IBM Partners With Google Cloud To Scale Enterprise AI Adoption

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) shares are down on Thursday after the company disclosed a strategic partnership with Alphabet Inc‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google Cloud.

The collaboration targets a multi-billion-dollar market opportunity and will focus on scaling AI across industries including banking, retail, and telecommunications.

As part of the agreement, IBM and Google Cloud are launching a new Google Cloud Practice that combines IBM’s consulting expertise with Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure to accelerate AI adoption and modernization projects.

By partnering with IBM, Google Cloud aims to ensure that joint customers can move beyond pilots to deploy and govern production-grade AI agents across their entire cloud environment, explained Kevin Ichhpurani, President of Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud.

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