Granite 4.2 brings native reasoning to enterprise agents
IBM Research 1 month ago 39 ● 5 sources
IBM released Granite 4.2 language and speech models aimed at enterprise “agentic” workflows with native step-by-step reasoning and tool use. Granite 4.2 is offered in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes, and its speech add-on Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC runs at about 12,600 RTFx on a single H100 GPU. IBM says the updated training approach and inference optimizations improve agents’ planning, error checking, and faster high-volume transcription while expanding deployment options under an Apache 2.0 license.