IBM Granite
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12recommend
1warn against
Nov 1, 2025first mention
Oct 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“granite is the model my m2 MacBook will be using to run this survival LLM”
Runs local LLMs on an M2 MacBookon “We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4”
“I use granite and qwen together with a manually curated set of books, articles, etc. to get work done while disconnected.”
works offline at a remote propertyon “Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library tha…”
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“agentic granite4.1:3b works fine.”
“The weights are also open sourced as well.”
Caveats and dissent
“it's just a bunch of other original content that has been chewed up and regurgitated into something "new"”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE 7 mentions
- IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop 2 mentions
- We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 1 mention
- Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer 1 mention
- IBM Bob 1 mention
Also written as IBM Granite, Granite, Granite 4. Data: ibm-granite.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 22
“granite is the model my m2 MacBook will be using to run this survival LLM”
“I use granite and qwen together with a manually curated set of books, articles, etc. to get work done while disconnected.”
“Never heard of Granite?”
“agentic granite4.1:3b works fine.”
“Granite has much of the training pipeline and data open”
“IBM publishes Granite.”
“https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite”
“The weights are also open sourced as well.”
“This inspired me to give that a go”
“Qwen 3.6 35b a3b, granite4.1 8b, llama 3.2 3b.”
“It's one of the few models on the market where the creator indemnifies it against copyright claims.”
“it's just a bunch of other original content that has been chewed up and regurgitated into something "new"”
“This makes then very token efficient and particularly well suited for local inference”
“Very impressive series of SLM by IBM here.”
“like IBM did for granite 4”
“please look at old gemma 3n 4eb, and small IBM granite”
“I'd wager most people around here would have more use for Granite, however.”
“It wasn't very promising when it came to benchmarks though”
“here is very interesting research going https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite”
“granite4 for speed and lower complexity (around the same as gpt20b).”
“I was referring to the smaller ones -- `granite4:micro`, `granite4-latest`, `granite4:350m`.”
“small ibm granite worked surpassingly well”