Getting started with IBM watsonx as a Service

You can sign up for IBM watsonx.ai and IBM watsonx.governance and explore the tutorials, resources, and tools to immediately start working with models or governing models. If you are an administrator, follow the steps to set up IBM watsonx as a Service for your organization.

Start working

If you want to write code, go to the watsonx Developer Hub.

To start working:

If you haven't already, sign up for watsonx.ai and watsonx.governance.
Click a task tile on the IBM watsonx as a Service home page and start working. For example, click Open Prompt Lab on the Chat and build prompts with foundation models tile. Then, choose a sample prompt and start experimenting. Your first project, where you save your work, is created automatically. See Your sandbox project.
Explore your resources:
- Take a Quick start tutorial
- Click a category in the Samples area of the home page to try out a notebook, a prompt, or a sample project.

If you are an existing Cloud Pak for Data as a Service user, you can switch to watsonx.

Set up the platform as an administrator

To set up the watsonx platform for your organization, see Setting up the platform as an administrator.

Learn about watsonx

To understand watsonx, start with these resources:

Other information: