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granite-4.0-tiny is an open-weight language model from ibm-granite, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
[](https://mot.isitopen.ai/model/1168) Granite-4.0-Tiny-Preview Model Summary: Granite-4-Tiny-Preview is a 7B parameter fine-grained hybrid mixture-of-experts (MoE) instruct model fine-tuned from Granite-4.0-Tiny-Base-Preview using a combination of open source instruction datasets with permissive license and internally collected synthetic datasets tailored for solving long context problems. This model is developed using a diverse set of techniques with a structured chat format, including supervised fine-tuning, and model alignment using reinforcement learning. - Developers: Granite Team, IBM - Website: Granite Docs - Release Date: May 2nd, 2025 - License: Apache 2.0 Supported Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese. However, users may fine-tune this Granite model for languages beyond these 12 languages. Intended Use: This model is designed to handle general instruction-following tasks and can be integrated into AI assistants across various domains, including business applications. Capabilities Thinking Summarization Text classification Text extraction Question-answering Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Code related tasks Function-calling tasks Multilingual dialog use cases Long-context tasks including long document/meeting summarization, long document QA, etc. Installation: You need to install transformer from source to use this checkpoint. HuggingFace PR: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/37658 Install transformer from source: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/installation#install-from-source Generation: After installation, copy the code snippet below to run the example. Evaluation Results: Training Data: Overall, our training data is largely comprised of two key sources: (1) publicly available datasets with permissive license, (2) internal synthetically generated data targeted to enhance reasoning capabilities. Infrastructure: We train Granite-4.0-Tiny-Preview using IBM's super computing cluster, Blue Vela, which is outfitted with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. This cluster provides a scalable and efficient infrastructure for training our models over thousands of GPUs
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | ibm-granite |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Parameters (lead) | 6.7B |
| Context | 128k tokens |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Based on | ibm-granite/granite-4.0-tiny-base-preview |
| Released | 2025-04-30 |
| Popularity | 74k downloads / month |
| Likes | 184 |
| Licence | Open weights |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| granite-4.0-tiny-preview | 6.7B | BF16 | ~15.3 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys granite-4-0-tiny for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (granite-4-0-tiny 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-tiny","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
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Licence
Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗