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IBM released Granite 4.2, an open-weight family of dense, decoder-only reasoning language and speech models for self-hosted enterprise agent workflows

Model release ● Confirmed 88% confidence first seen

IBM launched Granite 4.2, an open-weight family of dense, decoder-only language models designed for enterprise “agentic” workflows, including native step-by-step reasoning and tool use. The release includes 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter variants, with an added agentic reinforcement learning stage for the 8B and 30B models and an associated Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo add-on under Apache 2.0 terms.

Granite 4.2 Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC IBM Apache 2.0 Granite MarkTechPost SWE-bench Verified Terminal-Bench 2.1

Source coverage

Granite 4.2 brings native reasoning to enterprise agents IBM Research Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built Hugging Face official IBM’s new Granite 4.2 models add reasoning and stay dense The New Stack IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models MarkTechPost IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs Ars Technica independent

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