India, Feb. 27 -- IBM has debuted the next generation of its Granite large language model (LLM) family, Granite 3.2, in a continued effort to deliver small, efficient, practical enterprise AI for real-world impact.

All Granite 3.2 models are available under the permissive Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. Select models are available today on IBM watsonx.ai, Ollama, Replicate, and LM Studio, and expected soon in RHEL AI 1.5 - bringing advanced capabilities to businesses and the open-source community. Highlights include:

* A new vision language model (VLM) for document understanding tasks which demonstrates performance that matches or exceeds that of significantly larger models - Llama 3.2 11B and Pixtral 12B - on the essential enterpr...