Model · Language model
Granite-4.2-8B
A downloadable 8B dense reasoning text model with tool calling published by IBM under the Apache-2.0 license, with signed Safetensors checkpoints.
- Developer
- IBM
- Distribution
- Downloadable weights
- Artifact licensing
- Open-licensed artifacts
- License scope
- Reviewed release artifacts and mandatory terms; not an assessment of training code or training data openness.
- Licenses
- Apache License 2.0
- Boundary
- This record represents the ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b instruct reasoning release dated August 25, 2026 at Hugging Face commit f8de16cdcdbc6c779ca517604e050d82cc119e44. The Granite-4.1-8B-Base model it derives from, the 3B and 30B Granite 4.2 siblings, the Granite 4.0 generation, quantizations, IBM-hosted services, and independent hosts are separate boundaries.
Risk statements
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