IBM has launched its Granite 3.0 family of AI models under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. These competitive models lay the groundwork for IBM’s future agentic AI efforts.
IBM has unveiled its latest family of AI models called Granite 3.0, at its annual TechXchange event. It said that these models can outperform or match similarly sized models on academic and industry benchmarks. Unlike OpenAI which is secretive about its models, IBM has released the Granite models under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
The new Granite 3.0 family includes lots of new models. They are:
General Purpose/Language: Granite 3.0 8B Instruct, Granite 3.0 2B Instruct, Granite 3.0 8B Base, Granite 3.0 2B Base
Guardrails & Safety: Granite Guardian 3.0 8B, Granite Guardian 3.0 2B
Mixture-of-Experts: Granite 3.0 3B-A800M Instruct, Granite 3.
