Pending benchmarksTracking since Oct 18, 2026
Is Granite Switch 4.1 state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 15, 2026; no independent results yet.
IBM's 8B and 30B Granite Switch models: one checkpoint that switches through control tokens between chat, a general Decision adapter, a Guardian safety adapter and English speech-to-text.
Announced facts
The details so far
- Lab
- IBM
- Announced
- Oct 15, 2026
- API
- Not yet
- Open weights
- Published
- Parameters
- 8B and 30B (Granite 4.1 base models, plus a 470M speech encoder)
- Sizes
- granite-switch-4.1-8b and granite-switch-4.1-30b
- Modes
- Chat, Decision aLoRA, Guardian Core aLoRA (safety), English speech-to-text
- Speech
- Embedded Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC (470M, English)
- Adapters
- Activated LoRAs that reuse the base model's KV cache
- Memory
- About the same GPU memory as the base model alone, per IBM
- Serving
- Hugging Face Transformers and vLLM
- Weights
- Hugging Face (repos created 2026-10-14)
- License
- Apache-2.0
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
Next steps
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
Self-reported
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: the Guardian aLoRA on average outperforms Jev 1.13, Microsoft-Decision-1, GPT-Luna-Decisions and Clef-Flash on safety-related decision tasks.
Receipts
Sources
LABGranite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint (IBM on the Hugging Face blog)huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-switch-4-1 · Oct 15, 2026REPOgranite-switch-4.1-8b on Hugging Facehuggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b · Oct 15, 2026REPOgranite-switch-4.1-30b on Hugging Facehuggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-30b · Oct 15, 2026PRESSLangChainJP post on Xx.com/LangChainJP/status/2111623409469718832 · Oct 18, 2026Tracking continues until an independent board lists it.