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granite-4.2-8b-fp8

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 6eb3735Signed: 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-4.2-8b-fp8safetensorspermissive
FactsParams8.8BSize9.63 GBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8
# manifest sha256 d1b43ca0a5b5… · 9.63 GB · 16 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.2-8b-fp8 ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8
From sourceHosted (signed)ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8Last check: 2026-11-15 04:52 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
16, each with a sha256
Publisher
ibm-granite
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.granite
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Base model: ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

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Granite-4.2-8B (FP8)#

Note. This repository contains the FP8 version of Granite-4.2-8B.

Please refer to the original model's model card for additional details: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

Files

16 files · 9.63 GBWeights 9.62 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
README.md365 Ba78ad6cf3418e4d9b54684d4fb03fb30830b74ef2ed97493f5157903507f06c0
chat_template.jinja9.01 KBf0ba43f79b3cabca5e5a7584c77aec92f49feae45cdf7779c87d9fc54cd90258
config.json2.22 KB30491582e1ffc095eb1b1e8acbb0b9be83261a2eaddd8d4a62086b9f1d9a3302
generation_config.json207 B1b9baf0a7959d31d7fb58ff6b506c27d09a73d395cadccc7e6dd1d4b7e43fd9d
granite_thinking_parser.py4.65 KBcd5eef99f559f33dc402e0475174a97dcb43724d7e810149c702e9bbc473048a
merges.txt917 KBb6fe424e334903f7fb84d3a106d9730455f4744b9fe3c21ee136d97a00e72502
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors4.96 GB3c5828496fe261b52851242479c5a645ae1e0009844ed873b71e6a94b98bd0b6
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors4.66 GBf4c47df073e90b11ccb0571aa58852a8845784bda5ddb14841846d415391d4e3
model.safetensors.index.json54.3 KB97f03fe800ae609f89252abe34e94a8bb690b28c05a33a89c5f0c5487e993d5b
model.sig11.3 KB1063d414a2bc37bc239a18707b1ab6121482b071458c9775c8f0c9c5dbcb7edf
recipe.yaml176 B202b71abfb88a3e1bddc2f79f4c3742171af6bd60c214573c4610b3b1817c91f
special_tokens_map.json563 Be9435fefd6d838fd9fcbbc44b97a8e3ff322be7f6dfb7e4fd2468586574bb52b
tokenizer.json7.15 MB883975314d58743726347caaf2c32ac89afd5ad57222cffbc4f052f2ab27b2d7
tokenizer_config.json17.7 KB2007f26df166ed10a2d6fa881c1c8f3cdd151e451469f59b274897f14449835f
vocab.json1.61 MBa1be0c1e0a89b5bacda6af6f8b63df09668cb8d1f656229ee9123140c9507810
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
6eb3735036 pinned now2026-11-15 04:52 UTC16 files · 9.63 GB

Use it

$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8
# manifest sha256 d1b43ca0a5b5… · 9.63 GB · 16 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.2-8b-fp8 ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-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-4.2-8b-fp8.json --dir ./granite-4.2-8b-fp8 $ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-4.2-8b-fp8 ./ibm-granite__granite-4.2-8b-fp8.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8 --revision 6eb3735036ce2010f4ec8319820172a1c06508d7 --local-dir ./granite-4.2-8b-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-4.2-8b-fp8", revision="6eb3735036ce2010f4ec8319820172a1c06508d7") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8", revision="6eb3735036ce2010f4ec8319820172a1c06508d7", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8 --revision 6eb3735036ce2010f4ec8319820172a1c06508d7
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License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
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License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
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Provenance

From: ibm-granite <huggingface.co/ibm-granite>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-4.2-8b-fp8Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 6eb3735Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8
Pinned commit
6eb3735036ce2010f4ec8319820172a1c06508d7
Manifest
granite-4.2-8b-fp8.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
d1b43ca0a5b566e76f5b8fe0a514d35283eafb29c71847038b1900082eb57a18
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 04:52 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm granite-4.2-8b-fp8.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

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Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. granite-4.2-8b-fp8.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8

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