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IBM cuts the LLM out of Granite Speech and ships 470 million parameters

Same day as Granite 4.2. Two English ASR models, no language-model backbone. IBM's H200 number is 12,600 RTFx.

IBM ships Granite 4.2 as three dense Apache reasoners

25 August. 3B, 8B, and 30B, trained from scratch on about 15 trillion tokens. A thinking switch. Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face, Ollama, and GitHub.