IBM Bob goes self-hosted with Nemotron and Poolside Laguna on premises

IBM announced a self-hosted deployment option for its IBM Bob agentic development platform, targeting on-premises, private, sovereign and air-gapped environments. NVIDIA Nemotron and Poolside Laguna are the first supported self-hosted models, while Claude Sonnet 5.0, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.7 Flash and OpenAI GPT 5.6 Sol are available via hybrid connections. Pricing and infrastructure sizing were not disclosed.

• Self-hosted Bob runs on customer-managed infrastructure, including air-gapped setups
• First supported local models are NVIDIA Nemotron and Poolside Laguna
• Hybrid options include Claude Sonnet 5.0, Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.7 Flash and GPT 5.6 Sol
• IBM cites a forecast that hybrid and edge will take 44% of AI infrastructure by 2030