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granite-4.0-tiny

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.

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What granite-4.0-tiny is

[](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

What it is

Makeribm-granite
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)6.7B
Context128k tokens
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Based onibm-granite/granite-4.0-tiny-base-preview
Released2025-04-30
Popularity74k downloads / month
Likes184
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

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.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
granite-4.0-tiny-preview6.7BBF16~15.3 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers safetensors granitemoehybrid text-generation language granite-4.0 conversational deploy:azure

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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