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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 29, 2026Published at 2:21 AM EDT · New York
IBM Ships Granite 4.2 Reasoning Models From 3B to 30B Under Apache 2.0
The 30-billion-parameter model scores 57.00 on SWE-bench Verified and 89.17 on AIME25, with a switch that turns step-by-step reasoning off for latency-sensitive calls.
IBM released the Granite 4.2 family on August 25: 3-billion, 8-billion and 30-billion-parameter reasoning models under the Apache 2.0 license. The architecture is a dense decoder-only transformer with a thinking switch, so a single checkpoi…
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