IBM announced late Wednesday that it’s making its artificially intelligent computer system, Watson, available to researchers as a cloud service.

Scientists from universities, pharmaceutical companies and commercial research centers have been using Watson, which was built to understand human language, to analyze and test hypotheses in their data, along with data held in millions of scientific papers available in public databases.

Early adopters have been trying out the cloud service, but it’s officially available today, according to Rob Merkel, vice president of IBM’s Watson Healthcare Group.

Merkel declined to talk about the cost of the service.

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