Organization

IBM

Model developer · Enterprise software · Armonk, New York

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.1 2 3

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Sep 29, 2026

Key facts

Website: ibm.com (external site: ibm.com)
Legal name: International Business Machines Corporation1
Ownership: Publicly traded
Legal form: New York corporation1
Headquarters: Armonk, New York1
Founded: 19111
Sectors: Enterprise, Open models

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

IBM publishes Granite model weights on Hugging Face. The Granite 4.2 8B model card states the Apache License 2.0. IBM's watsonx products are commercial services.7 2 3

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

Hosted model products

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IBM: hosted model products
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.3 4	Sep 29, 2026

Other products

IBM: 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

Related open artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

Model families (1)

IBM GraniteModel family

Model releases (3)

Granite 4.2 30BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight
Granite 4.2 3BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight
Granite 4.2 8BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight

Frameworks (1)

DoclingSoftwareAvailability: Public

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

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Aug 25, 2026 · Release
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.

U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

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

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

1.
IBM Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 (external site: sec.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by IBM) · Filing · published Feb 24, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
IBM Granite (external site: ibm.com)
IBM · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
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IBM watsonx.ai (external site: ibm.com)
IBM · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
Choosing a foundation model in watsonx.ai (external site: ibm.com)
IBM · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
IBM watsonx Orchestrate (external site: ibm.com)
IBM · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
IBM watsonx.governance (external site: ibm.com)
IBM · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b model card (external site: huggingface.co)
IBM (Hugging Face) · Model card · published Aug 25, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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