IBM Granite
IBM Granite is a model family from IBM1, with 4 assessed releases in this catalog. Licenses and availability are recorded for each release, not for the family; its releases use the Apache License 2.0.
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.12
- 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)
Releases assessed
| Release | Weights | Tier (USASI rubric v0.2) | License | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite 4.2 30B | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): 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 v0.2): 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 v0.2): Open-weight | Apache-2.0, Apache-2.0, CDLA-Permissive-2.0 | Aug 25, 2026 |
| Granite Switch 4.1 8B | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight | Apache-2.0, Apache-2.0 | Oct 14, 2026 |
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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.
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title = {IBM Granite},
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month = sep,
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