IBM Releases New AI Models Built for Business

IBM announced the launch of its most advanced AI models to date, the Granite 3.0 family, designed to elevate enterprise AI and open-source development, at its annual TechXchange event. This new suite of models—available under the permissive Apache 2.0 license—delivers high performance, flexibility, and safety across a wide range of tasks.

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IBM Granite 3.0 Models

“Granite 3.0: IBM’s third-generation Granite flagship language models can outperform or match similarly sized models from leading providers on many academic and industry benchmarks, showcasing strong performance, transparency, and safety,” IBM said on Monday.

Key Features of Granite 3.0 Models:

General-Purpose Models: The Granite 3.0 8B and 2B language models excel in enterprise tasks such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), classification, and summarisation, offering up to 23x cost savings compared to larger models.

Safety Focus with Granite Guardian: The new Granite Guardian 3.0 models are tailored to enforce responsible AI practices, checking for risks like bias, toxicity, and hallucinations, ensuring more secure and reliable AI outputs.

“In extensive testing across 19 safety and RAG benchmarks, the Granite Guardian 3.0 8B model has shown higher overall accuracy in harm detection on average than all three generations of Llama Guard models from Meta,” IBM noted.

Mixture of Experts (MoE): MoE models, such as the 1B-A400M and 3B-A800M, are lightweight and optimised for low-latency, CPU-based applications.

Time Series Models: The Granite Time Series models have been upgraded, outperforming larger models from Google, Alibaba, and others, with enhanced flexibility for external variables and rolling forecasts.

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According to IBM, the instruct variants of the new Granite 3.0 8B and 2B language models, as well as the Granite Guardian 3.0 8B and 2B models, are available today for commercial use on IBM’s watsonx platform. A selection of the Granite 3.0 models will also be available as NVIDIA NIM microservices and through Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Model Garden integrations with HuggingFace.