# Granite: what I've logged

> Granite comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from September 2025 to August 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from IBM Research and IBM, filed under image, video, world, open weights and agents and coding.

## Items

1. **Granite 4.2 30B** (IBM Research, 24 Aug 2026): IBM's Apache 2.0 reasoning model with 128K context and tool calling, released with 8B and 3B siblings. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-24-week-in-ai#item-5)
2. **Granite 4.0 H Small** (IBM, 29 Sept 2025): A hybrid Mamba and transformer family under Apache 2.0 with a lower memory footprint. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-29-week-in-ai#item-6)

## Posts

- 2026-08-24 [Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open up](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-24-week-in-ai)
- 2025-09-29 [Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2, and DeepSeek's sparse attention](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-29-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/granite