IBM releases Granite-4.2-30B with built-in reasoning capabilities · 2 sources tracked

IBM has released the Granite-4.2-30B, a large language model designed for enterprise and research use, available under the Apache 2.0 license. This model features native chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities, enabling it to perform step-by-step thinking for improved performance on complex tasks like math, coding, and agentic tool-calling. The Granite-4.2-30B supports flexible thinking modes, a 512K context window, and is compatible with various inference libraries and tools, including Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, and SGLang. AI

IMPACT Enhances enterprise AI capabilities with advanced reasoning and tool-calling features, promoting open-source adoption.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=2 ai=1.0]

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• Granite 4.2
• Granite-4.2-30B
• Granite-4.2-3B
• Granite-4.2-8B
• Hugging Face
• ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b
• Google Colab
• HuggingChat
• IBM
• Kaggle
• OpenAI
• SGLang
• transformers
• vLLM

• model release
• product

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