alt.freeweights.granite / granite-4.1-8b-fp8
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granite-4.1-8b-fp8

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 070021bSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 8.8B parameters. Safetensors weights, 9.63 GB in all. Published by ibm-granite under Apache-2.0.

8.8B params9.63GBgranite-4.1-8b-fp8safetensorspermissive
FactsParams8.8BSize9.63 GBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8
# manifest sha256 9a12479e60ba… · 9.63 GB · 15 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.1-8b-fp8 ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8
From sourceHosted (signed)ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8Last check: 2026-11-15 04:49 UTC

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Overview

Size
9.63 GB
Weights
9.62 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
8.8B
Formats
safetensors
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
15, each with a sha256
Publisher
ibm-granite
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.granite
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Original release from the publisher.

Base model: ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b

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Model card

From the publisher at commit 070021b. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.
Granite-4.1-8B (FP8)#

Note. This repository contains the FP8 version of 4.1-8B.

Please refer to the the original instruct model's model card for additional details: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b

Files

15 files · 9.63 GBWeights 9.62 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
README.md372 B4216bf75d9198aa5403911ebc784a4af7e72f7e5fc4248e9de4496e959030abb
chat_template.jinja6.10 KBfed2756d2d24e127b951dcf139d0b03ab7db8ef23a456128ebc9c2db4901d476
config.json2.10 KBc35aed2f3b28f3dd0fbd91ddaeffb69b0218b8dd1643dabad883d3575c8eba30
generation_config.json147 Beef72a0268cb044a95782d1d9dcf35105890e081f5a3dbb4004cf1bd70b916a6
merges.txt917 KBb6fe424e334903f7fb84d3a106d9730455f4744b9fe3c21ee136d97a00e72502
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors4.96 GBb94d8c9a2e26a9e2a50b34854ed66a612014040138ee4c17c39514720758fc38
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors4.66 GB3ea8ba05500487650a9a70ef095bac02aa9839a7af6a6ea368f175d9ae98504d
model.safetensors.index.json54.3 KB97f03fe800ae609f89252abe34e94a8bb690b28c05a33a89c5f0c5487e993d5b
model.sig10.7 KBd3e93ef14a326c6ac7f0ddc224aa68cf0ca8de4f45e2ba191b0f97385fcfb0af
recipe.yaml176 B202b71abfb88a3e1bddc2f79f4c3742171af6bd60c214573c4610b3b1817c91f
special_tokens_map.json579 Bc08676c49fd7969a3130f72be6d4bf34da66aa484a6e21dffe359893a1bd5f2e
tokenizer.json7.15 MBe2bad66439538cb4d5a7580680932432ed9ece9d3b8577e675512bdf11599253
tokenizer_config.json17.7 KBa5ec5daab12ba090a90f3dd169c8f9c275557013a87b9c1258dc7cb497a35c86
vocab.json1.61 MB8af71076de8b0b626eed0f4c984faf0a7c062479164b2a31308a948524d4f69c
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
070021b360 pinned now2026-11-15 04:49 UTC15 files · 9.63 GB

Use it

$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8
# manifest sha256 9a12479e60ba… · 9.63 GB · 15 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.1-8b-fp8 ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8.json --dir ./granite-4.1-8b-fp8 $ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-4.1-8b-fp8 ./ibm-granite__granite-4.1-8b-fp8.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8 --revision 070021b3608433b6107a00733d561c9779b9937e --local-dir ./granite-4.1-8b-fp8
transformersLoad the weights in Python.
import os os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com" from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8", revision="070021b3608433b6107a00733d561c9779b9937e") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8", revision="070021b3608433b6107a00733d561c9779b9937e", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8 --revision 070021b3608433b6107a00733d561c9779b9937e

License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
Listing
Hosted (signed)
Decided
License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
Text in
README.md
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4216bf75d9198aa5403911ebc784a4af7e72f7e5fc4248e9de4496e959030abb
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Provenance

From: ibm-granite <huggingface.co/ibm-granite>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-4.1-8b-fp8Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 070021bSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8
Pinned commit
070021b3608433b6107a00733d561c9779b9937e
Manifest
granite-4.1-8b-fp8.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
9a12479e60ba5cce04c1e01999bbef99849c08ee6d036106aa92cc070e0ec9f1
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 04:49 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm granite-4.1-8b-fp8.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

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Parent

ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b · this model is a quantization of it

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Get it
Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-fp8
Open in Freeweights Studio

Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. granite-4.1-8b-fp8.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
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