Neolabfresh 2d

IBM (Granite)

www.ibm.com/granite ↗github/ibm-granite ↗dossier.jsonrss
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
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
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 1, 2026
3wWritingIBM Elects Frank Baker to its Board of DirectorsCorporate governance, irrelevant to AI.sourcenotability 0.0/10
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 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
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 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
Aug 24, 2026
Aug 24WritingIBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONEProcessor announcement, not directly AI-focused.sourcenotability 4.0/10
Aug 24WritingIBM and the USTA Introduce New AI-Powered Fan Experiences for 2026 US Open Routine corporate AI partnership announcement, no technical detail or traction.sourcenotability 3.0/10
Aug 24WritingIBM Study: Sports Fans Want Streamlined Digital Experiences as Platform Choices ExpandCorporate study, not AI model or research.sourcenotability 2.0/10
Aug 19, 2026
Aug 19WritingIBM Connects Its First Modular Cryogenic Systems in Milestone Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum ComputingNotable quantum computing milestone, limited AI relevance.sourcenotability 7.0/10
Aug 13, 2026
Aug 13WritingIBM Partners with OpenAI to Accelerate Secure AI Deployment for Enterprises Across Core OperationsCorporate partnership announcement, notable but not model release.sourcenotability 6.0/10
Aug 11, 2026
Aug 11WritingIBM and Together AI Sign Multi-Year Agreement to Scale Open-Source AI Inference with NVIDIA AI Infrastructure on IBM CloudMajor partnership for open-source AI inference scaling.sourcenotability 6.0/10
Aug 6, 2026
Aug 6WritingIBM Introduces Apptio AI Value & ROI to Close the Gap Between AI Spend and Business ResultsBusiness tool for AI spend, less notable than model release.sourcenotability 6.0/10
Aug 4, 2026
Aug 4WritingIBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, NGOs and Think Tanks routine corporate free access offersourcenotability 3.0/10
Jul 30, 2026
Jul 30WritingIBM and Algorithmiq Demonstrate Quantum Advantage, Establishing a Framework for Trusted Quantum Computation Beyond Classical VerificationQuantum advantage research by IBM, not AI but notable.sourcenotability 6.0/10
Jul 30WritingIBM and Qedma Demonstrate Quantum Advantage, Modeling Physics Beyond Classical Capabilities Through Trusted Quantum ComputationSignificant quantum advantage demonstration by major labsourcenotability 8.0/10
Jul 30WritingIBM and The University of Chicago Demonstrate Quantum Advantage, Establishing Trusted Quantum Computation on Logical CircuitsMajor quantum computing milestone from an AI lab, but not an AI model release.sourcenotability 7.0/10
Jul 29, 2026
Jul 29WritingIBM Study: One in Four Malicious Breaches are AI-Enabled, Costing Companies $6 Million on AverageSubstantive report on AI's role in breaches.sourcenotability 5.0/10
Jul 23, 2026
Jul 23WritingIBM to Acquire HRL Laboratories to Power the Future of Quantum Strategic quantum acquisition, moderate AI relevance.sourcenotability 5.0/10
Jul 22, 2026
Jul 22WritingIBM RELEASES SECOND-QUARTER RESULTSRoutine financial report, not AI event.sourcenotability 1.0/10
Jul 15, 2026
Jul 15WritingIBM Launches New Power Systems and Software Built for Enterprises to Address Risk, Productivity, and FlexibilityEnterprise hardware/software launch, not AI-specific.sourcenotability 3.0/10

Top signals

  1. #1WritingIBM and Qedma Demonstrate Quantum Advantage, Modeling Physics Beyond Classical Capabilities Through Trusted Quantum Computation8.0
  2. #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
  3. #3WritingIBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories to Accelerate the Future of Quantum8.0
  4. #4WritingIBM Advances Enterprise AI Software Development with Multi-Agent Capabilities and Specialized Modernization Workflows7.0
  5. #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.

Hiring 0Forks 0Releases 189Talking 61Repos 29
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

Analysis — agent synthesisfull report →generated October 24, 2026

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.