Granite 3.0 2B Instruct

Granite 3.0 2B Instruct is IBM's 2-billion-parameter instruction-tuned language model, released on October 21, 2024 as part of the Granite 3.0 family. It is fine-tuned from Granite-3.0-2B-Base with supervised finetuning, RL alignment, and model merging, trained on over 12 trillion tokens across 12 natural languages and 116 programming languages.

The model supports summarization, classification, extraction, question answering, RAG, code tasks, and function calling. Unusually for its size class, IBM released the entire Granite 3.0 family under the permissive Apache 2.0 license with published training-data disclosures.

The 2B instruct variant targets efficient enterprise deployment, including edge and local use via Ollama, Replicate, watsonx, and NVIDIA NIM.