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Week of October 12, 20261 model
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Granite Switch 4.1
IBM·🇺🇸·Major lab
TextOtheropen
Model Summary: Granite Switch 4.1 8B is a modular LLM that composes a base model, multiple adapters and an encoder together so that a single hosted endpoint can move between natural-language responses, general and specialized decisions, and speech-to-text.
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Week of August 3, 20262 models
IB
Granite 4.2
IBM·🇺🇸·Major lab
TextReasoningopenAPI
Dense decoder-only language model from IBM for multilingual use, coding, RAG, tool use and structured JSON output, with a built-in thinking mode for extended reasoning. The sources frame it for enterprise use and customization.
Model Summary: Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC Non-commercial is a compact 470 million parameter English ASR model with very high inference speed that is released for research and noncommercial purposes only. We invite users to refer to granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc for other use cases.
IBM's Granite 4.x generation: 8B, Apache 2.0, $0.05/$0.10 per MTok (one of the cheapest). Enterprise-focused, strong on structured tasks. IBM ships Granite models consistently with open weights.