IBM Releases Granite Switch 4.1, Integrating Chat, Decision-Making and Voice in a Single Endpoint
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On October 16, 2026, IBM released two models, Granite-Switch-4.1-8B and -30B, on the Hugging Face Blog. Through Decision aLoRA, Guardian aLoRA, and Granite-Speech-5.0-Turbo-CTC, the series integrates natural language responses, general and specialized decision-making, and speech-to-text into a single hosted endpoint, with VRAM usage close to that of the base model. Public information currently consists mainly of the release report; there are no reports yet of follow-up reviews or user feedback.
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- Hugging Face BlogGranite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint
IBM released the Granite-Switch-4.1-8B and -30B models, combining natural language responses, general and specialized decisions, and speech-to-text into a single managed endpoint via Decision aLoRA, Guardian aLoRA, and Granite-Speech-5.0-Turbo-CTC, with memory usage close to the base model.
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