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Getting started with IBM watsonx

Last updated: Jun 27, 2025
Getting started with IBM watsonx

You can sign up for watsonx 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 watsonx for your organization.

Start working with watsonx

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

To start working with watsonx:

If you're using watsonx on IBM Cloud: If you haven't done that already, sign up for watsonx.

If you're using watsonx on AWS: Your administrator provides the URL to the IBM watsonx web console and your log in credentials.

Next steps:

  1. Click a task tile on the IBM watsonx home page and start working. For example, ask a question on the Chat and build prompts with foundation models tile and start experimenting. Your first project, where you save your work, is created automatically. See Your sandbox project.
  2. Explore your resources:

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: