A team needs to include a third-party vendor model — not built in IBM Watson Studio — in watsonx.governance for regulatory oversight. How can this model be incorporated into a use case?
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It's like a compliance officer reviewing contracts — they check every clause against the rulebook. watsonx.governance supports external model registration allowing models built outside of IBM infrastructure — including third-party vendor models and open-source models — to be linked to a use case and governed. Metadata, risk assessments, and Factsheet information can be captured manually or via API.
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Full Explanation
watsonx.governance supports external model registration allowing models built outside of IBM infrastructure — including third-party vendor models and open-source models — to be linked to a use case and governed. Metadata, risk assessments, and Factsheet information can be captured manually or via API. This enables consistent governance regardless of where models were originally built. The incorrect options — such as 'Third-party models cannot be governed in watsonx.governance; only models built in Watson Studio are supported' and 'The vendor model must first be retrained in Watson Studio before it can be registered in a use case' — describe either out-of-sequence steps or unrelated configuration tasks. This concept falls under the 5.0 Define and Govern AI Use Case Inventory domain of the IBM watsonx.governance certification.