All Things AI 2026

Luis Lastras

Director, Language & Multimodal Technologies at IBM

Luis is Director for Language and Multimodal Technologies, part of the AI Foundations team at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. The contributions of his department are directed towards IBM’s flagship enterprise AI Granite model efforts, and range from core contributions to tools, RAG, reasoning, multilingualism and synthetic data generation frameworks to separate model families including embeddings, vision and speech. His department also is working on new architectures for modular LLM cons...