Granite 3.0 2B Instruct
IBM Granite at 2B. Apache 2.0 enterprise-friendly small model with safety tuning.
Overview
IBM Granite at 2B. Apache 2.0 enterprise-friendly small model with safety tuning.
Family & lineage
How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.
Strengths
- Apache 2.0
- Enterprise safety tuning
Weaknesses
- Smaller community than Llama / Qwen at the 2B tier
Quantization variants
Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.
| Quantization | File size | VRAM required |
|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 1.5 GB | 2 GB |
Get the model
HuggingFace
Original weights
Source repository — direct quantization required.
Hardware that runs this
Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Granite 3.0 2B Instruct.
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Source: huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct
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