# Tagged ibm

> Announcements and real-world deployments of AI, checked against their sources and scored: open-weights releases, decision models in the wild, and what is actually in use.

- [IBM releases Granite 4.1 8B, an Apache 2.0 instruct model for enterprise tasks](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/ibm-granite-granite-4-1-8b/index.md): Granite 4.1 8B is a long-context instruct model with better tool calling and instruction following, under Apache 2.0. (2026-04-29)
- [IBM releases Granite Guardian 4.1 8B, a judge model for safety, RAG and agent checks](https://shipped.anth.us/decisions/ibm-granite-guardian-4-1-8b/index.md): Apache-2.0 judge on Granite 4.1 8B with a hybrid reasoning mode. Covers harm, groundedness and function-calling hallucination, plus custom criteria. (2026-04-16)