IBM today announced the release of Granite 4.0, the newest generation of its homemade family of open source large language models (LLMs) designed to balance high performance with lower memory and cost requirements. Despite being one of the oldest active tech companies in the U.S. (founded in 1911, 114 years ago!), “Big Blue” as its often nicknamed has already wowed many AI industry workers and followers with this new Granite 4.0 family of LLMs, as they offer high performance on third-party benchmarks; a permissive, business friendly license (Apache 2.0) that allows developers and enterprises to freely take, modify and deploy the models for their own commercial purposes; and, perhaps most importantly, have symbolically put the U.S. back into a competitive place with the growing raft of high-performing new generation open source Chinese LLMs, especially from Alibaba’s prolific Qwen team — alongside OpenAI with its gpt-oss model family released earlier this summer.

Full report : IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open-source, enterprise-ready LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than conventional LLMs.