IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
Summary
IBM has launched Granite 4.2, a family of open-weight large language models with variants up to 30B parameters, featuring a 128,000-token context window and agentic reinforcement learning for enhanced capabilities.
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