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IBM releases Granite 4.0

IBM's fourth-generation base model, focused on enterprise data-security compliance and air-gapped private deployment.

Event details

Granite 4.0 is IBM's fourth-generation base model, focused on enterprise data-security compliance and physically isolated (air-gapped) private deployment. IBM released it open-source on October 2, 2025; the parameter count is undisclosed and it is an autoregressive Transformer. The primary source is IBM's official Granite 4.0 model documentation.

Why it matters

Rated on the impact-v1 six-axis scale: technical 2/5, market 2/5, ecosystem 4/5, policy & social 4/5, scope 3/5, durability 3/5.

68/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.