IBM Watson Knowledge Studio

IBM plans to decommission Watson Knowledge Studio on IBM Cloud on January 31, 2028. The July 2027 support-only milestone is separate.

Sources and shutdown details ↘

AI engineering & model services · Scheduled closure · 31 Jan 2028 · IBM

The record

A browser-based AI development application for organizing domain documents, managing annotations and type systems, training custom NLP models, evaluating them and deploying or exporting entity and relation extractors.

Current operator: IBM Company source
Service end: Scheduled closure · 31 Jan 2028Closure source

Sources and verification

IBM Knowledge Studio migration timeline — all IBM Cloud instances to be withdrawn ↗ · Checked 28 Oct 2026

Verification notes

Shutdown: The original IBM migration page was personally read in the native browser after the ordinary reader timed out. Its timeline explicitly distinguishes July 31, 2026 end of new-instance provisioning, July 31, 2027 end of support while the tool remains usable, and January 31, 2028 decommissioning of the service with permanent withdrawal of all IBM Cloud instances. This future full-service end is not confused with maintenance retirement or the separate 2025 rules-editor/dictionary-suggestion feature changes. Original tutorials show its own Launch tool application URL, workspaces, type systems, annotation tasks, custom machine-learning training and deployment/export workflow. It is a complete named browser-based NLP training application, not a single model or the separate Natural Language Understanding API. The wider IBM Cloud platform, watsonx.ai, exported artifacts and other Watson products are not declared closed. The July 2026 release-note heading and August 7 migration-document update are not fabricated into an exact first-announcement day. First public availability and cutoff hour/time zone are unknown. The January 2028 plan is outside this run’s 90-day freshness window, but its full-product scope and future day are explicit; status remains planned. Closure source
Dates checked: Verified 28 Oct 2026
AI functionality: AI functionality source
Launch: Exact first public availability was not established; older Marketplace and later IBM Cloud delivery are not separately counted or assigned arbitrary launch dates.
Location: United States · Armonk. IBM’s current official corporate contact page lists its corporate address in Armonk, New York. Use this sourced operator corporate-address city fallback, not a product-team office. Coordinates are the GeoNames locality point rounded to two decimals. Location source · Coordinate source