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granite-4.2-8b
Open weights · Apache-2.0by IBMReleased Aug 7, 2026
granite-4.2-8b is made by IBM. It takes text, with a context window of 512K tokens. On Tīrtha it takes up to 131,072 tokens.
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At a glance
MakerIBM
Acceptstext
Context512K tokens
Max output16,384 tokens
LicenceApache-2.0
ReleasedAug 7, 2026
Tested on Tīrtha Bench
Not on the public set yet: we have not run granite-4.2-8b on the public 800-task tool-call set. The bench shows every model we have run so far.
What it supports
- Text inYes
- Context window512K tokensUp to 131,072 tokens on Tīrtha.
- ReasoningYesThinks before it answers
- StreamingYes
- Sampling settingsFixed todayThe maker suggests temperature 1, top p 0.95. Tīrtha fixes temperature at 0 today.
From the maker
- Model card: ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b on Hugging Face
- Built on: ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base
- Last updated by the maker: Oct 20, 2026
Facts here are read from the maker's published card; claims and benchmarks on that card are the maker's own, not measured by Tīrtha.
Licence
Weights: Apache-2.0. Read the licence.