# IBM Research: what I've logged

> IBM Research comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from August 2026 to October 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include ALTK-Evolve and Granite 4.2 30B, filed under agents and coding, science and robotics.

## Items

1. **ALTK-Evolve** (IBM Research, 20 Oct 2026): Learns guidelines from an agent's own attempts and adds them to the system prompt, lifting held-out retail accuracy on tau2-bench from 78.1% to 82.5% with no weight updates. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/altk-evolve-bc) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-20-voxtral-3-eleven-realtime-torchtpu-claude-binders#item-5)
2. **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)

## Posts

- 2026-10-20 [Voxtral 3, Eleven Realtime, TorchTPU, Claude's toxin binders](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-20-voxtral-3-eleven-realtime-torchtpu-claude-binders)
- 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)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/ibm-research