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IBM (Granite)
Signal timeline279 total
Oct 22, 2026
2dWritingIBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP Expand AI-Powered Fan Experience Ahead of the United States Grand PrixRoutine corporate AI partnership announcement, not technicalsourcenotability 3.0/10
Oct 21, 2026
3dWritingIBM RELEASES THIRD-QUARTER RESULTSRoutine quarterly financial results, not AI-specific.sourcenotability 1.0/10
Oct 20, 2026
4dWritingllm-d 1.0 Advances Open, Cost-Efficient AI Inference for Production ScaleIBM releases llm-d 1.0 for cost-efficient inferencesourcenotability 7.0/10
Oct 14, 2026
1wWritingIBM Study: Eight in Ten EMEA Enterprises Escalate AI Incidents to Board or C-Suite as AI Agents Test GovernanceSubstantive industry governance study, no model or code.sourcenotability 5.0/10
1wModelibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8bIBM model release but very low downloadssourcenotability 5.0/10↓2.4k♥43
1wWritingIBM and Siemens Collaborate on Research to Advance Nanostack ArchitectureCorporate research collaboration; no model/code release or tractionsourcenotability 5.0/10
Oct 7, 2026
2wWritingIBM Advances to Stage C of DARPA Quantum Benchmarking InitiativeIBM quantum milestone, moderate AI relevancesourcenotability 5.0/10
2wModelibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2bIBM Granite speech model release, low tractionsourcenotability 5.0/10↓2.4k♥49
2wWritingProvidence Collaborates with IBM Using AI to Reduce Hiring Admin Time Without Replacing a Single SystemCorporate collaboration case study, not a model release.sourcenotability 4.0/10
2wWritingIBM to Announce Third-Quarter 2026 Financial ResultsRoutine corporate earnings announcement, not AI researchsourcenotability 2.0/10
2wWritingIBM Teams Up with SAP to Help Businesses Modernize Operations and Advance AI-ReadinessEnterprise AI partnership, significant but not model release.sourcenotability 6.0/10
Oct 6, 2026
2wWritingIBM and Red Hat Remediate More Than 400 Previously Unknown Open Source VulnerabilitiesLow traction security post, not AI-specific.sourcenotability 2.0/10▲2
Oct 2, 2026
Oct 1, 2026
3wWritingIBM Elects Frank Baker to its Board of DirectorsCorporate governance, irrelevant to AI.sourcenotability 0.0/10
3wModelibm-granite/ensemble-forecasting-with-ibm-granite-time-seriesSolid ensemble forecasting repo by IBMsourcenotability 5.0/10♥2
3wWritingIBM Introduces Self-Hosted Deployment for IBM Bob to Help Enterprises Advance AI Sovereignty and GovernanceCorporate product update for enterprise AI deployment.sourcenotability 6.0/10
Sep 30, 2026
3wWritingIBM Study: As AI Scales Enterprise-Wide, CFOs Play an Expanded Role in TransformationSubstantive IBM study on AI scaling and CFO role.sourcenotability 5.0/10
Sep 24, 2026
4wWritingIBM Acquires Logiq Consulting to Expand Secure Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity Capabilities in the UKCybersecurity acquisition, not AI-focused.sourcenotability 4.0/10
4wWritingIBM Expands Its Digital Banking Infrastructure with Swift Integration and Digital Asset Haven On-Premises Corporate fintech update, not AI research or model.sourcenotability 2.0/10
Sep 23, 2026
4wModelibm-granite/granite-timeseries-ensemble-r1Low traction model release with only 25 downloads.sourcenotability 4.0/10↓276♥7
Sep 22, 2026
4wWritingMarist University and IBM Launch Innovation Incubator with IBM z17, Expanding 50-Year Partnership to Advance AI Research and Student Career Readiness
University-industry AI incubator partnership, no model release or traction.sourcenotability 5.0/10
Sep 21, 2026
4wWritingNew IBM CHRO Study: AI Puts Critical Thinking at the Center of Workforce Priorities
Corporate workforce study, not a technical model or repo.sourcenotability 5.0/10
Sep 16, 2026
Sep 16WritingAnderon, an IBM Company, Finalizes Agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce for a $1 Billion CHIPS Award to Accelerate R&D for U.S.-Based Pure-Play Quantum FoundrySubstantive IBM quantum CHIPS award, not AI modelsourcenotability 6.0/10
Sep 10, 2026
Sep 10WritingIBM and NASA Release Open-Source AI Model to Support Lunar ExplorationNotable open-source AI model from IBM and NASAsourcenotability 7.0/10
Sep 10WritingIBM, Lockheed Martin Announce Swiss Quantum Innovation Hub at ETH Zurich, Anchored by Switzerland’s First IBM Quantum Computer IBM-Lockheed quantum hub at ETH, first Swiss IBM quantum computer.sourcenotability 6.0/10
Sep 9, 2026
Sep 9WritingLTM Collaborates with IBM and Red Hat on Lightwell to Advance AI-Driven Open-Source Software RemediationIBM-Red Hat collaboration on AI-driven remediation, solid industry post.sourcenotability 6.0/10
Sep 9WritingCleveland Clinic, RIKEN and IBM Team Advance to Finals for 2026 ACM Gordon Bell PrizePrestigious HPC award finalist, notable but limited industry impact.sourcenotability 5.0/10
Sep 2, 2026
Sep 2WritingNew IBM Study Finds AI Adoption Is Outpacing K-12 ReadinessIBM study on AI adoption, not model release.sourcenotability 5.0/10
Sep 1, 2026
Sep 1Modelibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-bf16-mlxIBM released Granite 4.2 30B MLX variant, notable enterprise model.sourcenotability 7.0/10↓505♥1
Sep 1Modelibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-bf16-mlxFormat variant of existing notable model, solid reposourcenotability 5.0/10↓503♥1
Sep 1Modelibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-bf16-mlxOfficial MLX variant of IBM Granite 3B modelsourcenotability 6.0/10↓452♥1
Aug 28, 2026
Aug 27, 2026
Aug 27WritingIBM Brings AI-Powered US Open Fan Experience Back to Madison Square ParkCorporate marketing event, no AI research or model release.sourcenotability 1.0/10
Aug 27Releaseibm-granite/gguf test-vX-language-08ibm-granite/gguf - Test release, not notablesourcenotability 2.0/10
Aug 26, 2026
Aug 26WritingIBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories to Accelerate the Future of QuantumMajor acquisition of HRL Laboratories for quantum research.sourcenotability 8.0/10
Top signals
- #1WritingIBM and Qedma Demonstrate Quantum Advantage, Modeling Physics Beyond Classical Capabilities Through Trusted Quantum Computation8.0
- #2WritingIBM Commits More Than $10 Billion to Quantum Computing, Funding Its Roadmap from Today's Leading Systems to the World's First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers8.0
- #3WritingIBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories to Accelerate the Future of Quantum8.0
- #4WritingIBM Advances Enterprise AI Software Development with Multi-Agent Capabilities and Specialized Modernization Workflows7.0
- #5WritingIBM and NASA Release Open-Source AI Model to Support Lunar Exploration7.0
Agent answer
IBM (Granite) has 279 loaded public signals: 0 hiring, 0 forks, 189 releases or model cards, 61 talking, and 29 repos. Latest signal: IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP Expand AI-Powered Fan Experience Ahead of the United States Grand Prix. Data-business radar is currently scoped to frontier labs, so this category does not expose radar lanes. The standing analysis was generated with deepseek-v4-pro and 94 evidence refs.
IBM (Granite)
has loaded 279 public signals
IBM (Granite)
has hiring signal count 0
IBM (Granite)
has fork signal count 0
IBM (Granite)
has release signal count 189
Thesis
IBM is shipping an Apache-2.0 open-model portfolio - dense reasoning text models (Granite 4.2), multilingual speech (Granite Speech 5.0), modular single-endpoint models (Granite Switch 4.1), and time-series forecasting (Granite Timeseries) - while layering an enterprise narrative around agentic-AI governance, sovereignty, and production-scale inference E1E2E3P6P10P19P12P23P9. The composite signal is less a frontier-benchmark play than an open, governable, deploy-anywhere agentic stack aimed at regulated and data-sensitive enterprises, reinforced by Q3 commentary framing clients as deploying 'Super Intelligence' to transform operating models P8.
Signal desks
Hiring
- No cited evidence in this pack. (No open-role, team, location, or job-description signals are provided.)
Forks
- No cited evidence in this pack. (No forked-repo or upstream-dependency signals are provided.)
Releases
- org=ibm-granite · Granite 4.2 dense reasoning family (3B/8B/30B, Apache-2.0, text-generation); 8B=80,469 downloads E3, 3B=38,858 E2, 30B=38,763 E1.
- org=ibm-granite · Granite Speech 5.0 2B multilingual ASR/AST (en/fr/de/es/pt/ja, 390k hrs) P6, plus 470m-turboctc (58,154 downloads) E4; note the -nc variant ships under cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 E8.
- org=ibm-granite · Granite Switch 4.1 8B/30B modular single-endpoint (base + decision + guardian-core adapters + speech encoder), Apache-2.0 P10P11E6E7.
- org=ibm-granite · Granite Timeseries ensemble r1 (PatchTST-FM r1/r2 + FlowState + TTM-r3, GiftEval) P19E17; granite-tsfm v0.3.10/v0.3.11 E23E12.
- org=ibm-granite · deployment/quantization artifacts: bf16-mlx variants E36E37E38 and repeated gguf test tags E43-E57.
- org=ibm-granite · granitelib-core-r1.0 decision LoRA/aLoRA adapters merged for granite-4.1-8b/30b W2.
Talking
- org=IBM · Agentic-AI governance: 80% of EMEA executives saw an AI incident reach board/C-suite in the past year, only 40% changed policy; 75% expect agent autonomy by 2027 P12E14.
- org=IBM · Sovereignty/self-hosted: IBM Bob agentic dev platform gains on-prem/private/sovereign/air-gapped deployment P23E25.
- org=IBM · Open inference: llm-d 1.0, CNCF-governed distributed inference, cited at 5-10x cost reductions on context-heavy agentic workloads P9E13.
- org=IBM · Earnings: Q3 revenue $17.1B (+5%, +6% cc), Software +8%, 'Super Intelligence' client deployments P8E11.
- org=IBM · Workforce/skills: CHRO study (critical thinking/judgment gaps), CFO study (guardrails by 2030), K-12 readiness gap P28P24P3.
- org=IBM · Quantum: DARPA QBI Stage C; HRL acquisition; Anderon $1B CHIPS award; ETH Zurich hub P14E47E31E33.
- org=IBM · Semiconductors: nanostack + Siemens; dual-architecture IBM Z/LinuxONE processor P13E58.
- org=IBM · GTM verticals: SAP ERP, Providence hiring admin (-90%), Swift digital-asset banking, Lightwell open-source remediation P17P15P25P18.
- org=IBM · Open science: NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model P2E32; external podcast discussion of agent incident forensics W6.
Shipping
Inspectable artifacts this window: Granite 4.2 3B/8B/30B reasoning models E1E2E3; a three-model Granite Speech 5.0 refresh (2B, revised turboctc, updated 4.1-2b-plus) P6W4E4E5; Granite Switch 4.1 8B/30B P10P11E6E7; Granite Timeseries ensemble r1 plus granite-tsfm v0.3.10/v0.3.11 P19E23E12; and bf16-mlx / gguf deployment artifacts E36E37E38E43-E57. Beyond models, llm-d 1.0 shipped as an open distributed-inference release P9, and IBM Bob added self-hosted deployment P23.
Research themes
- Reasoning/RL: Granite 4.2 8B uses a three-stage pipeline (SFT → multi-environment GRPO over math/code/tool/structured output → preference alignment) with three selectable reasoning modes; 86.67 AIME 2025, 47.67 SWE-Bench Verified W3.
- Modular/multi-capability composition: Switch 4.1 routes chat, decisions, and speech through one endpoint via on-demand adapters P10P11W1W5.
- Speech: multilingual ASR/AST across six languages, robustness to noise/reverberation, keyword-biased ASR up to 2000 keywords P6.
- Time-series: ensemble probabilistic forecasting combining four architectures to reduce single-model failure modes P19.
- Agentic governance/safety: board-level incident escalation and the governance-autonomy gap P12P1; Marist z17 incubator stress-tests agent guardrails under deceptive/unethical tactics P27E29.
- Quantum: fault-tolerant target 2029, DARPA verification, quantum protein simulation (Gordon Bell finalist) P14E35.
- Semiconductors: 3D nanosheet nanostack (~100B transistors at 7Å) with Siemens EDA P13.
Hiring & scaling
Direct hiring evidence is absent from this pack - no role titles, teams, or locations are cited. Scaling signals instead run through M&A and partnerships: Logiq Consulting (UK cybersecurity) P26, HRL Laboratories (quantum) E47, the Anderon quantum-foundry CHIPS award E31, and GTM collaborations with SAP, Providence, and Siemens P17P15P13. Treat the absence of open-role data as a gap in this pack, not evidence of headcount stasis.
Category implications
- Strategy: the sovereignty + governance double-framing (self-hosted Bob, EMEA governance study) positions Granite/watsonx for regulated, data-sensitive, and public-sector buyers P23P12P26.
- Infrastructure: llm-d 1.0 targets inference-cost and throughput pain for agentic workloads, while Bob self-hosting extends control to on-prem/air-gapped estates P9P23; nanostack and the IBM Z dual-architecture processor signal continued compute/device-scale investment P13E58.
- Product: Switch's single-endpoint chat+decisions+speech design reduces serving complexity, and the bf16-mlx/gguf artifacts signal local/edge deployment intent P10P11E36E43-E57.
- Research: active threads are reasoning RL, speech robustness, time-series ensembles, agentic governance/safety, quantum, and semiconductors W3P6P19P12P27P14P13.
- Hiring: no direct signal; infer demand for inference/serving, agentic-safety, speech, and time-series engineering from shipping cadence, but do not over-extrapolate E12E23P6P19.
- GTM: vertical playbook via SAP ERP, healthcare (Providence), sports sponsorships (US Open/Ferrari), digital banking (Swift), and open-source security (Lightwell) P17P15P4P5P25P18.
Traction highlights
- Granite 4.2 8B: 80,469 downloads E3; 3B: 38,858 E2; 30B: 38,763 E1.
- Granite Speech 470m-turboctc: 58,154 downloads E4; -nc variant: 32,797 E8; Speech 5.0 2B (newer): 1,125 E5.
- Granite Timeseries PatchTST-FM-r2: 237,738 downloads E22; swash-3b: 8,916 E41; Switch 4.1 8B/30B: 1,805 / 1,364 E6E7.
- Q3 2026: revenue $17.1B (+5%, +6% cc), Software +8%, FCF outlook raised P8.
- llm-d cited as adopted by 'frontier model labs, hyperscalers and neoclouds, hardware accelerators, and major enterprises' P9.
- Quantum footprint: 340+ organizations across industries P14.