granite-4.0-micro

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What granite-4.0-micro is

[](https://mot.isitopen.ai/model/1160) Granite-4.0-Micro 📣 Update [10-07-2025]: Added a default system prompt to the chat template to guide the model towards more professional, accurate, and safe responses. Model Summary: Granite-4.0-Micro is a 3B parameter long-context instruct model finetuned from Granite-4.0-Micro-Base using a combination of open source instruction datasets with permissive license and internally collected synthetic datasets. This model is developed using a diverse set of techniques with a structured chat format, including supervised finetuning, model alignment using reinforcement learning, and model merging. Granite 4.0 instruct models feature improved instruction following (IF) and tool-calling capabilities, making them more effective in enterprise applications. - Developers: Granite Team, IBM - HF Collection: Granite 4.0 Language Models HF Collection - GitHub Repository: ibm-granite/granite-4.0-language-models - Website: Granite Docs - Release Date: October 2nd, 2025 - License: Apache 2.0 Supported Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese. Users may finetune Granite 4.0 models for languages beyond these languages. Intended use: The model is designed to follow general instructions and can serve as the foundation for AI assistants across diverse domains, including business applications, as well as for LLM agents equipped with tool-use capabilities. Capabilities Summarization Text classification Text extraction Question-answering Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Code related tasks Function-calling tasks Multilingual dialog use cases Fill-In-the-Middle (FIM) code completions -- Generation: This is a simple example of how to use Granite-4.0-Micro model. Install the following libraries: Then, copy the snippet from the section that is relevant for your use case. Expected output: Tool-calling: Granite-4.0-Micro comes with enhanced tool calling capabilities, enabling seamless integration with external functions and APIs. To define a list of tools please follow OpenAI's function definition schema. This is an example of how to use Granite-4.0-Micro model tool-calling abil

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Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys granite-4-0-micro for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (granite-4-0-micro below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"granite-4-0-micro","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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