IBM’s new Granite 4.2 models add reasoning and stay dense
The New Stack 1 month ago 33 ● 5 sources
IBM launched Granite 4.2, a new open-weight family of dense, decoder-only, reasoning-capable large language models with optional “thinking” behavior. The release ships models with 3 billion, 8 billion, and 30 billion parameters and was pre-trained on 15 trillion tokens. IBM positions the update as enabling enterprises to run multi-step agentic workflows more cheaply by limiting reasoning-token use on easy questions, while keeping overall architecture dense for flexible fine-tuning.
