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New on the radar: granite-4.2-8b appeared in models.dev (wandb)

Granite 4.2confirmedby ArtificialWatch

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CONFIRMED2026-08-25 · Granite 4.2Granite 4.2new on the radarINTEL
verified against a primary source

Our hourly sweep found an id that was not there an hour ago.

Catalog id: wandb/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b Listed price: $0.1/$0.15 per 1M Context window: 131,072 tokens First observed by our sweep: 2026-08-25 04:44 UTC Source: models.dev (wandb)

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