IBM
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Software & IT Services |
| Website | http://www.ibm.com/ |
Between 2015 and 2025, IBM researchers released8,030 AI research articles
- #3in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 42.36citations per AI article on average (#88 in PARAT, #46 in the S&P 500)
- 1,040highly cited articles (#5 in PARAT, #4 in the S&P 500)
- -16.8%growth in IBM's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 1,693articles at top AI conferences (#5 in PARAT, #3 in the S&P 500)
- 29.4%of IBM's total public research was AI-focused
IBM's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 1248 | 64 | -21.32 |
| NLP publications | 1640 | 53 | -17.68 |
| Robotics publications | 165 | 32.7 | 0.74 |
| AI safety publications | 471 | 50.6 | -14.95 |
| Large language model publications | 864 | 48.8 | 8.21 |
Between 2015 and 2025, IBM filed9,077 AI-related patents
- #3in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 19.4%growth in IBM's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 6,381AI-related patents were granted to IBM (2017–2020)
- 21.1%of IBM's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across IBM's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge representation patents | 1708 | 3.38% |
| Computer vision patents | 812 | 2.15% |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 793 | 22.61% |
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 480 | 23.94% |
| Speech processing patents | 465 | 6.08% |
Top use cases across IBM's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 5726 | 24.56% |
| Telecommunications patents | 1505 | 15.01% |
| Business patents | 1179 | 18.58% |
| Life sciences patents | 659 | -2.87% |
| Security patents | 629 | 35.19% |
6,536
AI jobs
According to our data, IBM currently employs about 6,536 AI workers (#4 rank in PARAT, #3 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
120,809
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, IBM currently employs about 120,809 Tech Team 1 workers (#4 rank in PARAT, #4 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.