What is the context window of Granite 4.1 8B Base?

Granite 4.1 8B Base has a context window of 512K tokens.

When was Granite 4.1 8B Base released?

Granite 4.1 8B Base was released on 2026-04-29.

Granite 4.1 8B Base

Name: Granite 4.1 8B Base
Author: IBM Research

granite-4.1-8b-base

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IBM Granite 4.1 8B Base is the pre-training checkpoint for Granite 4.1 8B with extended 512K token context via long-context training phase. Dense decoder-only transformer. Supports code FIM. Apache 2.0.

Granite 4.1 8B Base has a 512K-token context window.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode Execution

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Specifications

FamilyGranite 4.1

Released2026-04-29

Parameters8B

Context512K

ArchitectureDense decoder-only transformer with GQA, RoPE, SwiGLU, RMSNorm

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