IBM releases Granite Switch 4.1.1 patch model
What happened
On 29 October 2026, IBM published the Granite Switch 4.1.1 patch release on the Hugging Face blog. The version is fully backward-compatible with 4.1 with no migration needed; the base model was not recomputed and only the adapters were updated. The update includes a Granite Speech ASR model supporting 10 languages with native punctuation and casing, and a granitelib-core Decision adapter with improved performance on the Jev Decision Index test set. IBM frames the release as "updating models like updating software".
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- Hugging Face BlogGranite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software
Just over a week ago, we released Granite Switch 4.1 , showing that our modular Switch architecture lets you configure a language model with specialized, cache-efficient adapters — adding new expertise on a single endpoint. Granite Switch 4.1.1 is a patch release.
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