It would make sense . They want to grow their services division so why not branch out to ML?

IBM has been struggling retaining people and their cloud efforts have been at best a distant fourth (AWS, AZURE and GCE). I tried using it and it had no advantage . At least Microsoft has a nice windows integration and UX and google has good UX and integration into Google services. AWS is the incumbent and what I personally use since I don’t trust Google and Azure doesn’t appeal to me due to my lack of need of Windows.

Actually by the sales numbers GCE lags far behind and IBM Cloud is almost tied with AWS. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/01/26/amazon-to-...

I really have to wonder about what IBM includes in cloud revenue and how thier profitability compares with AWS.