The $4 Billion AI Disaster: How IBM Watson Health Failed to Revolutionize Healthcare

Apr 22, 2025

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Executive Summary

In 2011, IBM's Watson supercomputer captivated the world by defeating human champions on the game show Jeopardy! Riding this wave of publicity, IBM launched Watson Health in 2015 with ambitious promises to revolutionize healthcare, particularly cancer treatment. The company invested approximately $4 billion acquiring healthcare data com…

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