IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models

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<p>IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, all under Apache 2.0. Every model exposes a thinking / low-effort / non-thinking switch and native tool calling. The 8B and 30B additionally go through an agentic RL block that trains them to edit code, drive a terminal, and run web searches inside real sandboxed environments. The 30B reports 57.00 on SWE-Bench Verified and 29.24 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/08/25/ibm-releases-granite-4-2-bringing-native-reasoning-and-agentic-rl-to-open-enterprise-models/">IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com">MarkTechPost</a>.</p>