Granite 4.1 8B
Granite 4.1 8B is the instruction-tuned version of the matching Granite 4.1 base. It supports text generation, retrieval-based answers, extraction, coding and tool use.
Model design and training
IBM uses supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning alignment. The training data combines public permissively licensed instructions, internal synthetic examples and selected human-authored data. The card names 12 supported languages and fill-in-the-middle code completion.Granite 4.1 8B model card
Practical use
Practical guidance. Use this release as a stable instruction-model baseline for a move to Granite 4.2 or Switch. Test structured output and tool arguments together. A correctly formatted call can still contain the wrong value, so inspect the resulting business operation.
Specifications & access
| Detail | Value and conditions |
|---|---|
| Launch date | |
| Access | API, Downloadable, Provider product |
| Model identifiers | ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b |
| Context window | 131,072 tokens Published model context; actual serving limits can be lower. Granite 4.1 8B model card |
| License | Apache 2.0Granite 4.1 8B model card |
| Parameters | 8BGranite 4.1 8B model card |
| Hosted access | watsonx: deploy on demand.IBM watsonx.ai foundation model library |
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A pretrained 8B dense decoder for text generation, further training and fill-in-the-middle code completion.
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