Model family

IBM Granite

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Maintained by IBM1

Granite is IBM's family of models. IBM lists language, speech, vision, guardian (risk detection), embedding, and time-series lines. The most recent language-model generation on IBM's Granite page is Granite 4.2: dense reasoning models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, released in August 2026 and post-trained from Granite 4.1 base models.1 2

Website: IBM Granite (external site: ibm.com)
Model hub: ibm-granite on Hugging Face (external site: huggingface.co)
Repository: Granite 4.2 language models repository (external site: github.com)

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Sep 29, 2026Documented release Unknown

Releases assessed

Each release is assessed on its own. This family has no family-wide openness label.

Releases in the IBM Granite family
Release	Weights	Tier (USASI rubric v0.1)	License	Released
Granite 4.2 30B	Weights: Public	Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight	Apache-2.0, Apache-2.0, CDLA-Permissive-2.0	Aug 25, 2026
Granite 4.2 3B	Weights: Public	Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight	Apache-2.0, Apache-2.0, CDLA-Permissive-2.0	Aug 25, 2026
Granite 4.2 8B	Weights: Public	Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight	Apache-2.0, Apache-2.0, CDLA-Permissive-2.0	Aug 25, 2026

What it is useful for

IBM positions Granite models for enterprise workloads. Granite 4.2 model cards list reasoning, code generation, tool calling, agentic workflows, and multilingual dialog.1 3

Organization context

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

Project eligibility rests on documented governing or maintaining entities, not on contributors.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Granite models are developed by IBM (the model cards name the "Granite Team, IBM"). IBM's principal executive offices are in Armonk, New York, per its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K.3 4

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Sources

1.
IBM Granite (external site: ibm.com)
IBM · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built (external site: huggingface.co)
IBM Granite (Hugging Face blog) · Announcement · published Aug 25, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
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
4.
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

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