IBM watsonx Models

FlowState

Granite TimeSeries FlowState R1

Zero-shot forecasting of regularly sampled numerical time series across changing temporal resolutions

Granite

granite-8b-japanese

Japanese text generation, summarization, classification, extraction, question answering, and Japanese-English translation in legacy IBM enterprise deployments

Granite

granite-20b-multilingual

Multilingual enterprise question answering, retrieval-augmented generation, summarization, extraction, classification, and text generation in English, German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese

Granite 3.0

Granite-3.0-8B-Base

Fine-tuning, domain adaptation, text generation, summarization, extraction, classification, and question answering

Granite 3.1

Granite-3.1-8B-Base

Fine-tuning, long-context document processing, enterprise text classification, extraction, summarization, question answering, and self-managed deployment

Granite 3.1

Granite-3.1-8B-Instruct

Self-hosted enterprise assistants, long-context document analysis, RAG, summarization, extraction, multilingual text workflows, and function calling

Granite 3.2

Granite-3.2-8B-Instruct

Long-context enterprise RAG, document and meeting summarization, information extraction, multilingual dialogue, code-related tasks, function calling, and self-hosted deployments

Granite 3.3

Granite-3.3-2B-Instruct

Local or dedicated enterprise assistants, RAG, long-document summarization, multilingual text workflows, coding assistance, reasoning, and resource-conscious inference

Granite 3.3

Granite-3.3-8B-Instruct

Self-hosted enterprise assistants, long-context RAG, summarization, multilingual text tasks, coding assistance, function calling, and cost-sensitive deployments.

Granite 4.0

Granite-4.0-H-Micro

Low-latency local inference, long-context text generation, RAG, multilingual assistants, coding assistance, and lightweight tool-calling agents

Granite 4.0

Granite-4.0-H-Small

Enterprise RAG, multi-tool agents, function calling, customer-support automation, multilingual instruction following, and long-context workloads

Granite 4.0

Granite-4.0-H-Tiny

Efficient enterprise assistants, multilingual text generation, RAG, classification, extraction, summarization, coding assistance, fill-in-the-middle completion, structured JSON, and tool-calling workflows

Granite 4.1

Granite 4.1 3B

Efficient local or private deployment, multilingual enterprise text processing, RAG, summarization, extraction, coding assistance, function calling, and lightweight AI assistants.

Granite 4.1

Granite 4.1 8B

Self-hosted enterprise assistants, multilingual text generation, RAG, coding assistance, structured extraction, and tool-calling agents

Granite 4.1

Granite 4.1 30B

Self-hosted enterprise assistants, long-context RAG, multilingual applications, coding, structured extraction, and tool-calling agents

Granite 4.2

Granite 4.2 3B

Efficient reasoning, coding assistance, tool calling, multilingual dialogue, local deployment, and lightweight enterprise agents

Granite 4.2

Granite 4.2 8B

Local or self-hosted reasoning, coding assistants, tool calling, multilingual dialogue, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows

Granite 4.2

Granite 4.2 30B

Self-hosted enterprise reasoning, coding agents, multilingual applications, tool calling, long-context workflows, and organizations requiring Apache 2.0 licensing

Granite 7B

Granite-7B-Lab

Self-hosted English text generation, summarization, extraction, classification, experimentation with LAB-aligned open-weight models, and resource-conscious deployments

Granite 13B V2

granite-13b-chat-v2

English enterprise chat, retrieval-augmented generation, question answering, summarization, extraction, and classification

Granite Code

Granite-3B-Code-Instruct

Self-hosted coding assistants, code generation, code explanation, code conversion, repository-scale prompts, and historical or reproducible research

Granite Code

Granite-8B-Code-Instruct

Local code generation, explanation, repair, translation, and research with an open Apache 2.0 model

Granite Code

granite-20b-code-base-schema-linking

Schema linking and relevant-table or relevant-column selection in text-to-SQL pipelines

Granite Code

Granite-20B-Code-Base-SQL-Gen

Natural-language-to-SQL generation over structured databases, analytics assistants, and the SQL-generation stage of text-to-SQL pipelines.

Granite Code

Granite-20B-Code-Instruct

Self-hosted coding assistants, code generation, code conversion, code explanation, and programming experiments where an Apache 2.0 open-weight model is preferred.

Granite Code

Granite-34B-Code-Instruct

Self-hosted code generation, code explanation, code repair, code conversion, coding assistants, and legacy Granite Code compatibility

Granite Embedding

granite-embedding-30m-english

Fast, low-footprint English semantic search, RAG retrieval, similarity matching, and vector indexing

Granite Embedding

Granite-Embedding-97M-Multilingual-R2

Low-latency multilingual semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, document similarity, long-document retrieval, and cross-lingual code retrieval

Granite Embedding

Granite-Embedding-107M-Multilingual

Low-cost multilingual semantic search, cross-lingual retrieval, vector databases, similarity matching, and RAG pipelines

Granite Embedding

Granite-Embedding-125M-English

English semantic search, vector retrieval, RAG, similarity matching, enterprise knowledge-base search, and local embedding deployment

Granite Embedding

Granite-Embedding-311M-Multilingual-R2

Multilingual semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, cross-lingual retrieval, long-document search, similarity, and code retrieval

Granite Embedding

granite-embedding-english-r2

English semantic search, vector retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, document similarity, clustering, and enterprise information retrieval

Granite Embedding R2

granite-embedding-small-english-r2

Compact English semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, document similarity, and private vector-search deployments

Granite Embeddings

Granite-Embedding-278M-Multilingual

Multilingual semantic search, vector retrieval, RAG, clustering, similarity matching, and text classification features

Granite Geospatial

granite-geospatial-biomass

Above-ground biomass mapping, forest monitoring, carbon-stock estimation, ecological analysis, and satellite-based remote-sensing research

Granite Geospatial

granite-geospatial-canopyheight

Canopy-height mapping, forest monitoring, vegetation analysis, carbon-cycle research, ecological assessment, and remote-sensing experimentation.

Granite Geospatial

granite-geospatial-land-surface-temperature

Land surface temperature estimation, urban heat island analysis, satellite-based environmental monitoring, and temporal gap filling

Granite Geospatial

granite-geospatial-uki

Remote-sensing feature extraction, Earth-observation transfer learning, and regional flood-segmentation workflows using multispectral and SAR satellite imagery

Granite Geospatial

granite-geospatial-wxc-downscaling

Spatial downscaling of weather forecasts, reanalysis data, and climate simulations

Granite Guardian

Granite Guardian 3.8B

Prompt and response safety classification, jailbreak detection, RAG groundedness and relevance checks, hallucination evaluation, and enterprise AI guardrails

Granite Guardian

Granite Guardian 4.1 8B

AI safety guardrails, jailbreak detection, RAG groundedness and relevance checks, function-call hallucination detection, custom criteria evaluation, and best-of-N response ranking

Granite Speech 4.1

Granite-Speech-4.1-2B-Plus

Multilingual speech-to-text with speaker labels, word-level timestamps, keyword biasing, and self-hosted enterprise transcription

Granite Speech 4.1

Granite Speech 4.1 2B

Multilingual offline transcription, speech-to-text, speech translation, subtitle generation, and domain-specific recognition with keyword biasing

Granite Speech 4.1

Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR

High-throughput multilingual speech transcription where low inference latency is more important than maximum recognition accuracy.

Granite Speech 5.0

Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC

High-throughput, low-latency English speech-to-text transcription on local, edge, and enterprise systems

Granite Speech 5.0

Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC NC

Fast local English speech-to-text transcription, edge-device ASR, research, browser demos, and high-throughput noncommercial batch processing

Granite Time Series

granite-ttm-512-96-r2

Lightweight multivariate forecasting at minute- and hour-level resolutions, especially when 512 historical observations and a 96-point forecast horizon are appropriate.

Granite TimeSeries PatchTST-FM

Granite TimeSeries PatchTST-FM-r2

Zero-shot forecasting of demand, prices, energy loads, traffic, telemetry, and other regularly sampled numerical time series; probabilistic forecasts and uncertainty intervals; local or self-managed inference.

Granite Time Series TTM

Granite-TTM-R3

High-throughput multivariate time-series forecasting, zero-shot or few-shot forecasting, probabilistic prediction, exogenous-variable forecasting, and CPU-friendly production deployment.

Granite TTM

granite-ttm-1024-96-r2

Efficient multivariate forecasting for regularly sampled energy, traffic, manufacturing, network, sales, and sensor data

Granite TTM

granite-ttm-1536-96-r2

Multivariate forecasting when at least 1,536 historical observations per channel are available, especially demand, traffic, electricity, manufacturing, finance, and other minute- or hour-level forecasting tasks.

Granite Vision

Granite 4.0 3B Vision

Chart extraction, table parsing, semantic key-value extraction, visual document processing, and local enterprise RAG pipelines

Granite Vision

Granite Vision 3.3 2B

Enterprise document understanding, chart and table extraction, OCR-oriented image analysis, visual question answering, and multimodal RAG

Granite Vision 4.1

Granite Vision 4.1 4B

Structured extraction from charts, tables, invoices, forms, and enterprise document images

Slate

slate-30m-english-rtrvr-v2

English semantic search, dense retrieval, vector indexing, duplicate-question matching, and lightweight retrieval-augmented generation

Slate

slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2

English semantic search, vector database indexing, retrieval-augmented generation, document matching, and query-passage retrieval