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research.ibm.com2026-04-30officialauthorityabout the granite familyHN 88 pts · 16 comments1,677 words
IBM released the Granite 4.1 family of models under an Apache 2.0 license, offering language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes alongside vision, speech, embedding, and guardian capabilities. These language models are trained on approximately 15 trillion tokens and extend context length to as much as 512K tokens, while the 97M-parameter embedding model supports retrieval across more than 200 languages. Developers can access these models on watsonx, Hugging Face, and via optimized inference runtimes including vLLM, SGLang, and llama.cpp.written, reviewed, cited
- Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR generates entire sequences at once instead of one token at a time.
- The Granite 4.1 8B instruct model matches or outperforms the Granite 4.0 32B Mixture-of-Experts model.
- Granite Guardian 4.1 is a direct replacement for Granite Guardian 3.3 8B and was fine-tuned on top of Granite 4.1 8B.
ibm.comofficialauthorityabout the granite family1,433 words
IBM releases Granite-Docling-258M, an ultra-compact open-source vision-language model with 258M parameters available under an Apache 2.0 license for converting documents to machine-readable formats. The model utilizes the DocTags markup format to preserve layout, tables, and equations, offering experimental multilingual capabilities for Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese while future iterations target sizes of approximately 512M and 900M parameters.written, reviewed, cited
- Granite-Docling replaces the SmolLM-2 language backbone used for SmolDocling with a Granite 3-based architecture.
- The model addresses instabilities in its predecessor by filtering datasets to remove samples with inconsistent or missing annotations.
- Experimental multilingual capabilities for Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese have not yet been validated for enterprise-ready performance or stability.
ibm.com2024-10-21officialauthorityabout the granite familyHN 39 pts · 6 comments1,962 words
IBM releases Granite 3.0, featuring dense models like Granite 3.0 8B Instruct and Granite 3.0 2B Instruct alongside mixture of experts (MoE) variants for minimum latency. All models are released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license and available today for commercial use on the IBM watsonx platform. The collection includes LLM-based input-output guardrail models and a speculative decoder for increased inference speed and efficiency.written, reviewed, cited
- IBM provides an uncapped indemnity for third party IP claims against IBM-developed models.
- The IBM Power scheduler adjusts the learning rate based on the number of tokens and batch size based on a power-law equation.
research.ibm.com2024-05-07officialauthorityabout the granite familyHN 18 pts · 4 comments1,880 words
ibm.com2025-10-02officialauthorityabout the granite familyHN 10 pts · 3 comments2,656 words
IBM launches Granite 4.0, a new family of open language models featuring a hybrid Mamba/transformer architecture designed for enterprise efficiency. Released under an Apache 2.0 license, these models are the first open models to receive ISO 42001 certification and offer over 70% reduction in RAM for long inputs. The hybrid architecture combines Mamba-2 layers with transformer attention, and IBM offers an uncapped indemnity for third party IP claims alongside a bug bounty program for security flaws.written, reviewed, cited
- Granite 4.0-H-Small exceeds all open weight models on IFEval except Llama 4 Maverick, a 402B-parameter model over 12 times its size.
- Granite 4.0 models are compatible with AMD Instinct MI-300X GPUs, enabling even further reduction of their memory footprint.
ibm.com2023-11-29officialauthorityabout the granite familyHN 4 pts · 2 comments
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firethering.com2026-04-30HN front pageabout the granite familyHN 328 pts · 209 comments1,865 words
IBM released Granite 4.1, a family of open source models trained on 15 trillion tokens with a rigorous data quality pipeline. The 8B dense model outperforms the previous 32B MoE variant on benchmarks like ArenaHard and GSM8K. Development involved four sequential RL stages and resulted in 4.1 million curated samples.written, reviewed, cited
- The 3B model extends context only to 128K tokens, not the 512K available to larger variants.
- Phase 5 extended the context window eventually to 512K tokens for the 8B and 30B models.
- Stage three was a short identity and knowledge calibration run about 40 training steps to stabilize representation.
arstechnica.com2026-08-26about the granite familyHN 4 pts · 0 comments584 words
IBM has released the Granite 4.2 family of open-weight large language models designed for local deployment. The 8B and 30B variants undergo an agentic reinforcement-learning block to enable capabilities like using the terminal, searching the web, or using external tools, while the 3B model supports tools without specialized training. This reasoning-focused release offers a native 128,000-token context window but often incurs slower response times and higher compute demands compared to competitors like Nvidia's Nemotron.written, reviewed, cited
github.com2024-05-07authorityHN front pageabout the granite familyHN 252 pts · 74 comments1,032 words
IBM introduces the Granite series of decoder-only code models trained on 116 programming languages. All models are released under an Apache 2.0 license for research and commercial use. Base models are trained on 3-4T tokens of code data and natural language datasets. The family includes base and instruct variants available in 3B, 8B, 20B, and 34B parameter sizes.written, reviewed, cited
- The 34B model is trained on 1.4T tokens after depth upscaling done on the 1.6T checkpoint of 20B model.
- We apply a HAP content filter that reduces models' likelihood of generating hateful, abusive, or profane language.
- We also scan all datasets using ClamAV to identify and remove instances of malware in the source code.
venturebeat.com2025-10-03about the granite familyHN 83 pts · 25 comments