IBM has launched Granite 4.0, a new family of open-source language models designed to slash infrastructure costs that have become a major barrier to enterprise AI adoption. Released under the Apache 2.0 licensing, Granite 4.0 represents IBM’s bet on a fundamentally different architectural approach to enterprise AI deployment. The models are built on what the company described as a “hybrid” architecture — combining emerging Mamba state space models with traditional transformer layers. ...
