Granite 3.1 8B

IBM · 2025 · LLM · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: IBM
C · CEO & Politics: Arvind Krishna — Corporate centrist
D · Date: 2025
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Darío Gil (SVP & Director of Research)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 5/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.15
R · What Makes It Special: Granite-3.1-8B-Instruct, IBM's 8B long-context instruct model fine-tuned from Granite-3.1-8B-Base on permissively licensed open and synthetic long-context data with supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement-learning alignment and model merging, under Apache 2.0. It supports 12 languages, from English and German to Arabic and Chinese, and handles summarization, extraction, question answering, RAG, code, function calling and long documents; Granite 3.3 has since succeeded it.
S · Stock / Status: $226 (IBM, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @IBM
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from IBM, released 2025.

Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗

“Granite 3.1 8B.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/ibm-granite-3-1-8b.html