IBM is zooming along with new open-source Granite Large Language Models (LLM) releases every few months. Granite 3.1 is the latest generation model, building upon the success of Granite 3.0. The model offers enhanced capabilities and performance optimized for business applications.
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The family of Granite 3.1 models boasts an impressive 128K token context window, a substantial increase from their predecessors. This expansion allows the models to process and understand much larger amounts of text — equivalent to approximately 85,000 English words — enabling more comprehensive analysis and generation tasks. By comparison, OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3, which ignited the AI revolution, could handle only 2,000 tokens.
Outperforming the competition
Big Blue claims its new Granite 8B Instruct model outperforms its rivals, such as Google Gemma 2, Meta Llama 3.1, and Qwen 2.5, on HuggingFace‘s OpenLLM Leaderboard benchmarks.
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