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name: watson-assistant-generative-ai
title: Using watsonx.ai for generative AI capabilities
description: By enabling watsonx.ai, you bring the generative AI capabilities in your assistants to give quick, accurate, and intelligent responses to the customer queries. In addition, the Large Language Models (LLMs) help your assistant to recognize customer conversation and respond to queries by using clear and concise conversation.
last-updated: 2024-12-20
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> ## Documentation Index
> The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/watson-assistant?format=markdown
> The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Using watsonx.ai for generative AI capabilities
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By enabling watsonx.ai, you bring the generative AI capabilities in your assistants to give quick, accurate, and intelligent responses to the customer queries. In addition, the Large Language Models (LLMs) help your assistant to recognize customer conversation and respond to queries by using clear and concise conversation. 

By default, assistants in all regions except `Frankfurt` use the model from the `Dallas` region.{: important}

You can configure and manage the following two capabilities of generative AI in your assistants:

- [Information gathering](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/watson-assistant?topic=watson-assistant-information-gathering&format=markdown)
- [Conversational search](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/watson-assistant?topic=watson-assistant-conversational-search&format=markdown)