IBM Think 2026: Enterprise AI platform expansion with multi-agent orchestration and sovereign cloud

At its annual Think conference in Boston on May 5, 2026, IBM announced its most comprehensive enterprise AI expansion, launching next-generation watsonx Orchestrate for multi-agent orchestration, IBM Confluent for real-time data to AI, IBM Concert for intelligent operations, and IBM Sovereign Core (now generally available) for AI-ready sovereign environments with verifiable data control. IBM also announced HCP Terraform powered by Infragraph in public preview and IBM zSecure Secret Manager for automated certificate lifecycle management on z/OS. IBM Concert Secure Coder brings security scanning to the moment code is written. The company framed the announcement as a blueprint for the 'AI operating model' as the 'AI divide widens' between enterprises, positioning IBM as a competitor in the enterprise AI platform space against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.