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IBM releases Granite 4.2 model family with built-in reasoning

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IBM has released its Granite 4.2 family of models, featuring three sizes: 30B, 8B, and 3B parameters. The flagship Granite-4.2-30B model is designed for strong reasoning capabilities, incorporating built-in chain-of-thought prompting and flexible thinking modes to balance depth and latency. These models support a 512K context window and are licensed under Apache 2.0 for open commercial and research use. AI

IMPACT These open-source models with advanced reasoning and long context windows could accelerate enterprise adoption of AI agents.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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IBM releases Granite 4.2 model family with built-in reasoning

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