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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I cover IBM’s Granite 3.3 launch and what it means for the future of enterprise AI.
Highlights
00:03 — The news surrounding IBM’s Granite model family has been coming thick and fast this year. Just a few months after the launch of Granite 3.2, the new Granite 3.3 model series represents another significant leap forward in this model family’s devleopment.
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00:46 — Granite Speech 3.3 8B is built on Granite 3.3 8B Instruct, IBM’s updated large language model (LLM), which boasts stronger reasoning capabilities and new fill-in-the-middle text generation features.
01:08 — Last time, we saw Granite 3.2 concentrate on document understanding. Now the focus has shifted to speech and audio. Gradually, IBM is amassing a comprehensive range of capabilities that will eventually cover every aspect required by the enterprise. It prioritizes accuracy and security and can handle exceptionally large workloads.
