IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models

MarkTechPost · 1 month ago · 13 ● 5 sources

IBM released Granite 4.2, an open family of reasoning language models that can switch between thinking, non-thinking, and low-effort modes. The models were pre-trained from scratch on roughly 15 trillion tokens and come in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. The 8B and 30B are additionally trained with agentic reinforcement learning for code editing, terminal control, and web searches in sandboxed environments, while all models ship under Apache 2.0.