Granite 3.0 8B

This report presents Granite 3.0, a new set of lightweight, state-of-the-art, open foundation models ranging in scale from 400 million to 8 billion active parameters. Equipped with native support of multilingual, coding, function calling, and strong safety performance, these models target enterprise use cases, including on-premise and on-device settings. Evaluations on a comprehensive set of tasks demonstrate that our models consistently reach state-of-the-art performance for their size (as shown in Figure 1 and 2). This report also discloses technical details of pre-training and post-training that may help the research community accelerate the collective efforts to develop open foundation models. We publicly release pre-trained and post-trained versions of all our Granite 3.0 models under a standard permissive Apache 2.0 license allowing both research and commercial use. With support from the open source community, the Granite 3.0 models have been integrated with a range of existing tools for quantization, fine-tuning, and deployment.