Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Is Competing With Models Four Times Its Size

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So IBM just dropped Granite 4.0 3B Vision and yes, it's fully Apache 2.0 licensed. No usage restrictions, no enterprise gating, no &quot;contact

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Long time Claude Opus user, but after the recent session limit changes by Anthropic, I am seriously considering trying Chinese models for coding.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>After burning way too much money on GPT-4 API calls, I finally went all-in on local models with Ollama. The progress in 2026 is insane

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