Hugging Face Blog·· 2026-08-25
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built
AI summary
The IBM Granite team released Granite 4.2, its first dense, decoder-only reasoning model family, in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes, all open-source under Apache 2.0.
Selection record
Threshold 60Official, first-handFirst 62Second 55
Not admittedSum of both 117 < twice the threshold 120
- Source tier
- Official, first-hand; this tier's threshold is 60
- Pre-filter
- passed：IBM Granite 4.2大模型技术构建详解
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
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