‘Western Qwen’: IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture

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IBM today announced the release of Granite 4.0, the newest generation of its homemade family of open source large language models (LLMs) designed to balance high performance with lower memory and cost requirements. Despite being one of the oldest active tech companies in the U.S. (founded in 1911, 114 years ago!), “Big Blue” as its […]

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