Organization
IBM
IBM is an AI model developer and enterprise software company headquartered in Armonk, New York1. This catalog lists 4 open model releases and 2 software projects from IBM, under licenses including the Apache License 2.0 and the Community Data License Agreement – Permissive, Version 2.0.
Documented roles: Model developer · Enterprise software
IBM is a publicly traded technology company. In AI, it develops the Granite family of models and sells the watsonx products for building, running, and governing AI models and agents.123
Using this organization’s offerings
Intended users
IBM presents Granite for enterprise workloads and watsonx.ai for organizations building and deploying AI applications.89
Hosted and self-hosted access
Granite offers downloadable model releases, while watsonx.ai supplies a hosted platform. A hosted deployment of a downloadable model does not make that model closed.89
Key facts
- Legal name
- International Business Machines Corporation1
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Publicly traded
IBM publishes investor information for its publicly traded common stock. Stock ownership and model licensing are separate questions.10
- Legal form
- New York corporation1
- Headquarters
- Armonk, New York1
- Founded
- 19111
- Sectors
- Enterprise, Open models
What is and isn’t public
Products
Hosted model products
Labeled Hosted product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It does not determine whether underlying weights or code are open; assess the specific release and its licenses.
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM watsonx.ai (external site: ibm.com) | Hosted model API | Cloud service with trial, Essentials, and Standard plans that offers IBM Granite and third-party foundation models for inferencing, including chat and tool-calling APIs, and supports imported custom models.34 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM watsonx Orchestrate (external site: ibm.com) | Enterprise software | Platform for building and managing AI agents, deployable on IBM Cloud, AWS, and other clouds or on premises; 30-day trial and paid plans.5 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| IBM watsonx.governance (external site: ibm.com) | Enterprise software | AI governance and risk-management software for cloud and on-premises environments; 14-day trial and paid purchase options.6 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Model families
- IBM GraniteModel family
Model releases
- Granite 4.2 30BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
- Granite 4.2 3BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
- Granite 4.2 8BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
- Granite Switch 4.1 8BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Frameworks
- DoclingSoftwareAvailability: Public
Runtimes
- llm-dSoftwareAvailability: Public
Organizational relationships
- Subsidiary: Red Hat
Units and subsidiaries have their own records and are counted separately from their parent.
Notable documented facts
- IBM's Granite page lists language, speech, vision, guardian, embedding, and time-series model lines, available through Hugging Face, watsonx.ai, and other platforms.2
In the news
llm-d 1.0 released with flow control, router high availability and a v1 configuration API
On October 20, 2026 llm-d project contributors announced llm-d 1.0, a release of the open distributed inference project that an IBM newsroom announcement says was founded in 2025 by Red Hat, IBM, Google Cloud, CoreWeave and NVIDIA and is now governed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The v1.0.0 release notes on GitHub list priority- and fairness-aware flow control with controlled load shedding, router high availability with hot standby and safe rolling updates, and the router configuration API graduating to
v1. The notes also say the disaggregated prefill-decode guide now requires LeaderWorkerSet v0.11.1 or newer. The announcement says Google Cloud is integrating llm-d 1.0 into Google Kubernetes Engine; it does not give a date for the CNCF governance change. USASI has not tested this release.IBM releases Granite Switch 4.1 models combining chat, decisions, and speech-to-text under Apache 2.0
IBM's Granite team published Granite Switch 4.1 in two sizes, granite-switch-4.1-8b and granite-switch-4.1-30b, whose model cards give a release date of October 14, 2026 and an Apache 2.0 license. The model cards describe each one as a modular model that composes a base model (granite-4.1-8b or granite-4.1-30b), multiple adapters, and an encoder so that chat, decision, safety-detection, and speech-to-text tasks are served from one endpoint. A Granite blog post on Hugging Face dated October 15, 2026 names the bundled parts as a Decision aLoRA, a Guardian aLoRA, and Granite-Speech-5.0-Turbo-CTC; the 8b model card says the speech component supports English only. USASI has not tested these models.
IBM releases the Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 forecasting model under Apache 2.0 or OpenMDW
On September 9, 2026 IBM Research announced Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2, a zero-shot forecasting model of about 385M parameters that succeeds PatchTST-FM-r1 in the Granite TSFM family. The announcement lists a context length of up to 8,192 steps, flexible forecast lengths, and probabilistic forecasts from a 99-quantile prediction head. The weights are on Hugging Face and the code is in the granite-tsfm repository, and the model is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and OpenMDW 1.0, with either license available to choose. USASI has not tested the model.
IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC, two compact English speech recognition models
On August 25, 2026 IBM's Granite team announced two 470M-parameter English speech recognition models on Hugging Face, granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc-nc. The first is released under Apache 2.0; the second, trained with additional data including GigaSpeech and SPGI Speech, is under the non-commercial CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license. IBM describes an encoder-only design with 16 Conformer blocks trained with CTC loss, and says that, unlike earlier Granite Speech models, which included an LLM with LoRA adapters, the new models lack capabilities such as speech translation and keyword biasing. USASI has not tested either model.
IBM releases Granite 4.2 language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes under Apache 2.0
IBM released Granite 4.2 on August 25, 2026: dense, decoder-only language models with built-in reasoning in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, post-trained from IBM's own Granite 4.1 base models. The weights are published on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. The catalog has a release record for each size under the Granite family.
What this catalog does not know
- Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
IBM's Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 lists its principal executive offices at One New Orchard Road, Armonk, New York, and its state of incorporation as New York.1
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