India, July 18 -- IBM has inaugurated its Agentic AI Innovation Centre at its Bengaluru office, offering enterprises, startups, and partners hands-on experience with autonomous AI agents. The centre allows users to build agents, fine-tune Small Language Models (SLMs), and audit their behaviour all within hours. Central to the centre's capabilities is IBM Watson Orchestrate, a unified platform enabling rapid deployment and management of AI agents across existing enterprise systems.

The initiative aims to fast-track AI adoption and foster co-innovation through developer events like hangouts and Accelerator Days, where IBM's experts support practical experimentation. Dinesh Nirmal, SVP of IBM Software, described the era of AI agents as one ...