Granite 4.2 8B

IBM's August 25, 2026 Granite refresh, released Apache 2.0 in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes and aimed squarely at enterprise agentic workflows — tool selection and sequencing, instruction following, coding and native reasoning — rather than leaderboard position. Distributed through Hugging Face, Ollama, watsonx, OpenRouter, Replicate, LM Studio, DeepInfra and CoreWeave. Two Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC models (470M, one non-commercial) shipped the same day with no LLM backbone, reaching ~12,600 RTFx on a single H200 against the Open ASR leaderboard's ~6,000 speed leaders; they are out of scope for this catalog. Only the 8B is entered here — IBM's blog publishes competitor charts as images without a machine-readable table, and no per-benchmark numerals could be sourced to a primary IBM page for any size, so the entry ships spec-only and stays unranked rather than importing a third-party aggregator's row. The 3B and 30B siblings are deliberately deferred until IBM's Hugging Face technical write-up can be transcribed.