Granite 4.2 8B

IBM🇺🇸ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

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Granite 4.2 8B is IBM's dense, decoder-only 8B-parameter reasoning model (Apache 2.0 license, 128K native context extendable to 512K) with switchable full, low-effort, and non-thinking modes, released August 25, 2026 as the mid-size member of the Granite 4.2 family. IBM positions it for enterprise use in mathematics, code generation, multilingual dialogue across 12 languages, and agentic tool-calling workflows on modest hardware.