IBM publishes the Granite family of open-weight language, code, and speech models under permissive licenses, plus enterprise embedding and reranker variants tuned for retrieval-augmented generation.
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Open weight
3
API only
0
Avg score
56.8
Top benchmark
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Total HF downloads
589.8K
First release
Apr 2025
Latest release
Mar 2026
Ranked by composite score across benchmarks, popularity, efficiency, and versatility.
| # | Model | Modality | Score | Params | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | audio | BB60.5 | 2B | Mar 2026 | |
| 2 | audio | BB56.9 | 3B | Apr 2025 | |
| 3 | audio | CC53.0 | 9B | Apr 2025 |
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| # | Model | Modality | Score | Params | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | audio | BB60.5 | 2B | Mar 2026 | |
| 2 | audio | BB56.9 | 3B | Apr 2025 | |
| 3 | audio | CC53.0 | 9B | Apr 2025 |
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