IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
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Read the full articleIBM has launched Granite 4.2, a new series of open-weight large language models available in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. These models support extended context windows and enhanced reasoning capabilities, with the larger variants trained for agentic tasks like web searching and tool use.



