IBM Granite is a series of decoder-only AIfoundation models created by IBM. It was announced on September 7, 2023,[3][4] and an initial paper was published 4 days later.[5] Initially intended for use in the IBM's cloud-baseddata and generative AI platform Watsonx along with other models,[6] IBM opened the source code of some code models.[7] Granite models are trained on datasets curated from Internet, academic publishings, code datasets, legal and finance documents.[8][9][1]