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'Western Qwen': IBM Wows with Granite 4 LLM Launch and Hybrid Mamba/Transformer

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Re: 'Western Qwen': IBM Wows with Granite 4 LLM Launch and Hybrid Mamba/Transformer

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IBM announcement post is more informative than venturebeat IBM Granite 4.0: hyper-efficient, high performance hybrid models for enterprise https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-granite-4-0-hyper-...

ISO 42001 certified.

> ISO/IEC 42001 is an international standard that specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) within organizations. It is designed for entities providing or utilizing AI-based products or services, ensuring responsible development and use of AI systems.

https://www.iso.org/standard/42001

If anyone has access to ISO standards, I'm really curious what the practical effects of that certification is. I.e. what things does Granite have that others don't, because they had to add/do it to fulfill the certification.

The committee was formed in 2017, chaired by an AI expert: https://www.iso.org/committee/6794475.html

Re: 'Western Qwen': IBM Wows with Granite 4 LLM Launch and Hybrid Mamba/Transformer

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Tried out the Ollama version and it's insanely fast with really good results for 1.9GB size. Supposed to have a 1M context window, would be interested where the speed goes then. No Mamba in the Ollama version though.

(I've only just starting running local LLMs so excuse the dumb question).

Would Granite run with llama.cpp and use Mamba?

Re: 'Western Qwen': IBM Wows with Granite 4 LLM Launch and Hybrid Mamba/Transformer

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Tried out the Ollama version and it's insanely fast with really good results for 1.9GB size. Supposed to have a 1M context window, would be interested where the speed goes then. No Mamba in the Ollama version though.

(I've only just starting running local LLMs so excuse the dumb question). Would Granite run with llama.cpp and use Mamba?

Last I checked Ollama inference is based on llama.cpp so either Ollama has not caught up yet, or the answer is no.

EDIT: Looks like Granite 4 hybrid architecture support was added to llama.cpp back in May: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13550

Re: 'Western Qwen': IBM Wows with Granite 4 LLM Launch and Hybrid Mamba/Transformer

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I made some dynamic GGUFs for the 32B MoE model! Try:

./llama.cpp/llama-cli -hf unsloth/granite-4.0-h-small-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Also a support agent finetuning notebook with granite 4: https://colab.research.google.com/github/unslothai/notebooks...

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