IBM Granite 4.0
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- Granite 4.0 introduces IBM's new family of efficient, enterprise-ready large language models (LLMs).
- The models focus on agentic workflows, offering competitive performance at reduced costs and latency.
- Granite 4.0 includes multiple model sizes (Micro, Tiny, Small) optimized for various hardware constraints.
- Performance benchmarks show Granite 4.0 models outperform previous generations, even with smaller sizes.
- The hybrid architecture combines Mamba-2 layers (90%) with transformer blocks (10%) for efficiency.
- Granite 4.0 reduces RAM usage by over 70% for long-context and multi-session tasks compared to conventional LLMs.
- IBM achieved ISO 42001 certification for Granite, ensuring safety, security, and transparency in AI management.
- Granite 4.0 models are compatible with AMD Instinct MI-300X GPUs and Qualcomm Hexagon NPUs for on-device deployment.
- The models excel in instruction-following, function calling, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tasks.
- IBM provides cryptographic signing for model checkpoints and a bug bounty program (up to $100,000) for security.
- Future releases include reasoning-focused 'Thinking' variants and additional model sizes (Nano, Medium).
- Granite 4.0 is available on platforms like Hugging Face, IBM watsonx.ai, NVIDIA NIM, and Docker Hub.