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granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: c18af5bSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 24.7 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

granite24.7GBgranite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUFggufpermissive
FactsParamsnot statedSize24.7 GBFormatsggufTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 cfb22c8d4947… · 24.7 GB · 6 files
$ fw verify ./granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-15 04:59 UTC
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Overview

Size
24.7 GB
Weights
4.35 GB (smallest of 4 GGUF variants)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
gguf
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
6, each with a sha256
Publisher
lmstudio-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.granite
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Original release from the publisher.

Base model: ibm-granite/granite-3.2-8b-instruct

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From the publisher at commit c18af5b. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

💫 Community Model> granite 3.2 8b instruct by Ibm-Granite#

👾 LM Studio Community models highlights program. Highlighting new & noteworthy models by the community. Join the conversation on Discord.

Model creator: ibm-granite

Original model: granite-3.2-8b-instruct

GGUF quantization: provided by bartowski based on llama.cpp release b4778

Technical Details#

Supports a context length of 128k.

Tuned for thinking capabilities.

Supported Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese.

Special thanks#

🙏 Special thanks to Georgi Gerganov and the whole team working on llama.cpp for making all of this possible.

Disclaimers#

LM Studio is not the creator, originator, or owner of any Model featured in the Community Model Program. Each Community Model is created and provided by third parties. LM Studio does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Community Model. You understand that Community Models can produce content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or deceptive. Each Community Model is the sole responsibility of the person or entity who originated such Model. LM Studio may not monitor or control the Community Models and cannot, and does not, take responsibility for any such Model. LM Studio disclaims all warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, reliability or benefits of the Community Models. LM Studio further disclaims any warranty that the Community Model will meet your requirements, be secure, uninterrupted or available at any time or location, or error-free, viruses-free, or that any errors will be corrected, or otherwise. You will be solely responsible for any damage resulting from your use of or access to the Community Models, your downloading of any Community Model, or use of any other Community Model provided by or through LM Studio.

Files

6 files · 24.7 GBWeights 4.35 GB (smallest of 4 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 6 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.80 KB784458e0e68dd3b238406a1322a717442872ed983e46e040f6bdd24ab15c66a7
README.md2.51 KB077f09ae2c9cd7c758a8a2f49b0d7417025ddb87a360f871d325d2a7f3dfb428
granite-3.2-8b-instruct-Q3_K_L.gguf4.35 GB278477f8b25732e5f823d82103bf5ab2f1b897885c5580a199566c1c517c6c21
granite-3.2-8b-instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf4.94 GB0751a36ec6a77c14f7cdb0f88d8747d45ca56adad5db13c3e67c5d20dc04536b
granite-3.2-8b-instruct-Q6_K.gguf6.71 GB3dd28b36f8c026c1fc31c0b185e3d0e3bd6cbdac0cb605ed0339f817673a82ac
granite-3.2-8b-instruct-Q8_0.gguf8.68 GB8dd139a6aef0247471ffec170ab4748ae619ae2dae9d7accd4f61d3728117d81
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
c18af5bc71 pinned now2026-11-15 04:59 UTC6 files · 24.7 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 cfb22c8d4947… · 24.7 GB · 6 files
$ fw verify ./granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF.json --dir ./granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF ./lmstudio-community__granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF --revision c18af5bc7139c800d2bcd2ceb0386ddbc42d0dca --local-dir ./granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (granite-3.2-8b-instruct-Q3_K_L, 4.35 GB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF --include "granite-3.2-8b-instruct-Q3_K_L*" --local-dir ./granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-Q3_K_L.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-Q3_K_L.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create granite-3.2-8b-instruct-gguf -f Modelfile
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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
Text sha256
077f09ae2c9cd7c758a8a2f49b0d7417025ddb87a360f871d325d2a7f3dfb428
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Provenance

From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: c18af5bSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF
Pinned commit
c18af5bc7139c800d2bcd2ceb0386ddbc42d0dca
Manifest
granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
cfb22c8d4947ccf227bf23ddeeb7ea021f48fb94c9de494150b2473079b460d9
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 04:59 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download

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Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF
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Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/granite-3.2-8b-instruct-GGUF

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