Hacker News

The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models

85 points by wglb ago | 16 comments

DonHopkins |next [-]

They should go all in on AI first and rebrand as AIBM, it has a nice ring to it.

"IBM, UBM, we all BM for IBM." --David Gerrold, "When HARLIE Was One".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_HARLIE_Was_One

jrgd |next |previous [-]

The few tests i ran i just got Granite4.1 tell me about YOLO repeatedly for no reasons; every questions and prompts were answered with a mention of a vision system unrelated with the task…

SequoiaHope |root |parent [-]

I shudder to think of what IBM’s government based clients are using YOLO for.

jrgd |root |parent |next [-]

That thought now reminds me of the ibm accounting machines and their punch cards… Not a great perspective.

jrgd |root |parent |previous [-]

Or trying to… given the performance of this release.

I bet though internal tools are more efficient.

RickHull |next |previous [-]

What is an enterprise workload?

reliablereason |root |parent |next [-]

Pragmatically enterprise tends to mean less refined, designed by committee and expensive.

In this case i would guess it is mostly a justification for taking a part of the LLM pie.

Havoc |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Aside from this just being standard corporate speak copy, there is an element of truth there - the granite models are likely to give you more plain toneless responses rather than a rainbow of emojiis. Which in corporate setting can be useful

skiing_crawling |root |parent |next [-]

That actually sounds nice in theory. A model for getting work done and nothing else, which doesn't have to account or be trained for any type of user engagement. Like how chatgpt/claude are wasting their capacity on social niceties and glazing the user. I don't know if granite is one such but I'd bet that many of the other popular models can't be since they are consumer facing.

weird-eye-issue |root |parent |previous [-]

Existing models from OpenAI etc never return emojis when using the raw APIs unless you ask for it

swiftcoder |root |parent |next |previous [-]

OCR'ing tables into spreadsheets, apparently

hbbio |root |parent |previous [-]

"This approach presents a significant opportunity for optimization and strategic realignment to better meet our core objectives."

|next |previous [-]

immanuwell |next |previous [-]

cool portfolio flex from IBM, but until I see independent benchmarks that aren't cherry-picked, I'll believe it when I see it

ekianjo |previous [-]

The lmstudio link points to granite 4.0