IBM unveils Granite 4.2 models for local deployment with expanded agentic capabilities

IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0

IBM is releasing its Granite 4.2 language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, trained on about 15 trillion tokens with a context window of up to 512,000 tokens. The larger models use "agentic RL" training to learn tool use…