granite-4.2-8b is a large language model released by IBM, released under the apache-2.0 license, with a claimed knowledge cutoff of 2026-08-25. Its weights, configuration, and tokenizer files have been cryptographically hashed and are queued for on-chain attestation by Weight Registry.

Description

Granite 4.2 8B is a dense reasoning model from IBM, released August 25, 2026, part of a 3B/8B/30B family. It supports native think/non-think/low-effort modes, tool calling, and a 128K context window (extendable to 512K), tuned for math, code generation, multilingual dialogue, and agentic workflows.

Metadata

Type: LLM
Issuer: IBM
License: apache-2.0
Size: 16.38 GB
Knowledge cutoff: 2026-08-25
Source: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
Revision: f8de16cdcdbc6c779ca517604e050d82cc119e44

Hugging Face stats

112,993 downloads on Hugging Face · 84 likes · pipeline: text-generation · library: transformers

Weight Hashes

Weights file

4 shards (Merkle root) · 16.38 GB

SHA-2564b3b7481d2623e68dc37fa13019795351d6728609cb5f77898abc38d17acbd45

SHA3-256ee454a3635fcce3564c9a6049474f91241e39396cf0ab17ae668344a289b40be

BLAKE337994dcee0fae2e4d484880a9e85ebed3bd0c4d4a946088717863a2f5251aaa2

Config file

config.json · 907 B

SHA-25685611f4e34633d4e148e6a5f64bc2d3a23ebbc2b014bc87fbda764eecf261cd9

SHA3-256035827b9fcc11b8fbfc09e78c397568021e046ca8743114207b0de2f3e457b20

BLAKE310b162322b13d6429122cc931e486deed45017d5ad82414c251b9d10a888134d

Tokenizer file

tokenizer.json · 6.82 MB

SHA-256883975314d58743726347caaf2c32ac89afd5ad57222cffbc4f052f2ab27b2d7

SHA3-256a1610e5169afa188195695b32726cc3b43d15f089c60bb4a2d3826c4485cd95c

BLAKE3010a895d014feb0c9632049b204ca710ea535495a3a181035f4bcc35e1b8ae6c

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WEIGHT REGISTRY

granite-4.2-8b (2026)