IBM Releases Granite 4.2 with Native Reasoning for Enterprise Agents
IBM Releases Granite 4.2 with Native Reasoning for Enterprise Agents IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of dense open-weight language models spanning 3B, 8B, and 30B parameters with built-in chain-of-thought reasoning, flexible thinking modes, and reasoning-augmented tool calling — all under the Apache 2.0 license. Key Capabilities The Granite 4.2 family introduces native reasoning inside questions...answer tags, significantly improving performance on complex math, coding, multi-step log
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