---
pipeline_tag: text-generation
inference: false
license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
tags:
- language
- granite-3.2
- gguf
base_model:
- ibm-granite/granite-3.2-8b-instruct
---

> [!NOTE]
> This repository contains models that have been converted to the GGUF format with various quantizations from an IBM Granite base model.
> 
> Please reference the base model's full model card here:
> https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.2-8b-instruct


# Granite-3.2-8B-Instruct-GGUF

**Model Summary:**
Granite-3.2-8B-Instruct is an 8-billion-parameter, long-context AI model fine-tuned for thinking capabilities. Built on top of [Granite-3.1-8B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.1-8b-instruct), it has been trained using a mix of permissively licensed open-source datasets and internally generated synthetic data designed for reasoning tasks. The model allows controllability of its thinking capability, ensuring it is applied only when required.

- **Developers:** Granite Team, IBM
- **Website**: [Granite Docs](https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/)
- **Release Date**: February 26th, 2025
- **License:** [Apache 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

**Supported Languages:** 
English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese. However, users may finetune this Granite model for languages beyond these 12 languages.

**Intended Use:** 
This model is designed to handle general instruction-following tasks and can be integrated into AI assistants across various domains, including business applications.

**Capabilities**
* **Thinking**
* Summarization
* Text classification
* Text extraction
* Question-answering
* Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
* Code related tasks
* Function-calling tasks
* Multilingual dialog use cases
* Long-context tasks including long document/meeting summarization, long document QA, etc.