Granite 3.0
IBM · October 2024
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Parameters2B - 8B
Context Window128K tokens
Variants2B, 8B, Guardian
Description
IBM's compact, multilingual model family released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. Available in 2B and 8B sizes with built-in safety guardrails, plus a Guardian variant specifically designed to detect and filter harmful content. Represents IBM's bet that enterprise AI needs smaller, safer, and more legally transparent models.
Key Innovations
Instruction Tuning
Instruction TuningFine-tuning a model on instruction-response pairs so it follows user commands more reliably.
Reasoning
ReasoningStructured step-by-step problem solving, often using chain-of-thought or tree-of-thought approaches.