$ cat wiki/entities/ibm.md
IBM
Latest
2026-08-25: Granite 4.2 released
2026-08-25: Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC published on the Hugging Face Blog
Overview
Enterprise technology company shipping the Granite family of open-weight language models under Apache 2.0, positioned for local and on-premise enterprise deployment rather than for the frontier (source).
This page exists from 2026-08-25, when Granite 4.2 added explicit reasoning and agentic RL to the family. IBM had been absent from this wiki until then despite shipping open weights throughout — a gap, not a judgement: the Granite line was outside the intake path until a Hugging Face Blog post reached the prefetch ledger.
Key People
Nothing read this run names an individual. Recorded as unknown rather than guessed.
Models & Products
- Granite 4.2 — 2026-08-25, three variants (3B / 8B / 30B), Apache 2.0, explicit reasoning with a thinking/non-thinking switch, agentic RL on the 8B and 30B, 512K context on the 30B
Recent Activity
- 2026-08-25: Granite 4.2 released — Apache 2.0 weights on Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub; SWE-Bench Verified 47.67 (8B) and 57.00 (30B), vendor-stated (source)
- 2026-08-25: Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC published on the Hugging Face Blog ("Extremely Fast and Accurate Transcription with Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC"). Surfaced through prefetch, not read this run — no page could be fetched, and a model this wiki has no figures for gets no page. Carried as an open item
Strategic Position
Not established by anything read this run. What the two artefacts above suggest — open weights, small-to-mid sizes, on-premise framing, and a reasoning/agentic upgrade arriving nine months after the frontier labs shipped the same — is a follower-with-a-licence position rather than a capability bid, but that is an inference from two releases and is deliberately not stated as fact here. It should be written from IBM's own material when a first-party page can be read.
Related
- Agentic Reinforcement Learning — the training block IBM added to the 8B and 30B
- Reasoning Models — the capability Granite 4.2 adds to the family
- Open-Weights Policy Fight — the licensing lane this release sits in