IBM Granite: upcoming dates

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• AI10/12/2026@TechDesk

  Granite 4.2 8B, 3B and 30B Released

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  Starts 08/25/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins81% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 81%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better56 days ago

  IBM's Hugging Face^[1][5] announcement 'Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built' and the ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b model card both give the release as August 25, 2026; OpenRouter^[2] lists the 8B on 31 August, which is when the router added it.

  IBM releases Granite 4.2, three open Apache 2.0 reasoning models (3B, 8B and 30B) with a switchable thinking mode; the 8B scores 47.67 on SWE-bench Verified and 86.67 on AIME25 in IBM's own runs.

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• AI10/13/2026@TechDesk

  Granite 4.1 8B, 3B and 30B Released

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  Starts 04/29/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins87% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 87%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better174 days ago

  IBM^[1] Research's blog post is dated 29 April 2026 and says 'today IBM released the Granite 4.1 collection'; the ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b model card gives 'Release Date: April 29th, 2026'. GIGAZINE's Japan-time report is dated 30 April.

  IBM releases Granite 4.1, dense 3B, 8B and 30B language models under Apache 2.0 whose 8B instruct matches or beats the 32B-parameter Granite 4.0 mixture-of-experts model, alongside new vision, speech, guardian and embedding models.

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• AI10/13/2026@TechDesk

  Granite 4.0 Nano 1B and 350M Released

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  Starts 10/28/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better357 days ago

  IBM's Hugging Face^[1][2][3] blog post 'Granite 4.0 Nano: Just how small can you go?' and the granite-4.0-h-1b and granite-4.0-h-350m model cards give October 28, 2025; It's FOSS reported it the next day.

  IBM releases Granite 4.0 Nano, its smallest models yet: hybrid and plain-transformer versions of roughly 1B and 350M parameters for edge and on-device use, under Apache 2.0.

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• AI10/13/2026@TechDesk

  Granite 4.0 Small, Tiny and Micro Released

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  Starts 10/02/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.1 years ago

  IBM's^[1][2] announcement page is dated 2 October 2025 and the ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small model card gives 'Release Date: October 2nd, 2025'; IBM Think and Open Source For You covered it on 3 October.

  IBM releases Granite 4.0, open Apache 2.0 language models built on a hybrid Mamba-2/transformer architecture that IBM says cuts memory needs by over 70%, the first open models with ISO 42001 certification.

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• AI10/13/2026@TechDesk

  Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview Released

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  Starts 05/02/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins89% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 89%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.5 years ago

  IBM's^[1][2] announcement page is dated 2 May 2025 and the ibm-granite/granite-4.0-tiny-preview model card gives 'Release Date: May 2nd, 2025'; AIwire's write-up of the IBM Think 2025 news is dated 8 May 2025.

  IBM releases Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview, an early look at a 7B-parameter hybrid Mamba-2/transformer mixture-of-experts model with 1B active parameters, trained on only 2.5 trillion tokens so far.

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• AI10/13/2026@TechDesk

  Granite 3.3 8B and 2B Released

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  Starts 04/16/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins84% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 84%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.5 years ago

  IBM's^[1] announcement page is dated 16 April 2025 and describes the Granite 3.3 launch as 'today'; Speech Technology Magazine reported the Granite Speech 3.3 release on 22 April 2025. The Hugging Face^[2][3] repositories were created a week earlier, on 9 April, before the announcement.

  IBM releases Granite 3.3 8B and 2B Instruct with fill-in-the-middle support and refined reasoning, plus Granite Speech 3.3 8B, its first official speech-to-text model, under Apache 2.0.

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• AI10/13/2026@TechDesk

  Granite 3.2 8B and 2B Released

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  Starts 02/26/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.6 years ago

  IBM's^[1] announcement page is dated 26 February 2025; SiliconANGLE's^[2] report is dated 26 February 2025, and the Granite 3.2 8B Instruct and Granite Vision 3.2 2B model cards give the release date as February 26th, 2025.

  IBM releases Granite 3.2 with switchable chain-of-thought reasoning in the 8B and 2B Instruct models and its first official vision-language model, Granite Vision 3.2 2B, all under Apache 2.0.

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• AI10/13/2026@TechDesk

  Granite 3.1 8B and 2B Released

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  Starts 12/18/2024CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.8 years ago

  IBM's^[1][2] announcement page is dated 18 December 2024 and says 'today marks the release of IBM Granite 3.1'; the Granite 3.1 8B Instruct and Granite Guardian 3.1 model cards both give the release date as December 18, 2024.

  IBM releases Granite 3.1: every Granite 3 model gains a 128K-token context window, with new Granite Embedding models and function-calling hallucination detection in Granite Guardian 3.1, all under Apache 2.0.

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• AI10/13/2026@TechDesk

  Granite 3.0 8B and 2B Released

  1 New Orchard Road, Armonk, New York 10504, United StatesIBM

  

  Starts 10/21/2024CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins89% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 89%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better2.0 years ago

  IBM's^[1][2] press release is dated 21 October 2024 and says IBM announced Granite 3.0 'today' at TechXchange; the ibm-granite/granite-3.0-8b-instruct model card gives the same release date, October 21st, 2024.

  At its TechXchange event IBM releases Granite 3.0, its third generation of open Apache 2.0 models: 8B and 2B dense language models, Granite Guardian safety models and small mixture-of-experts models.

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