Open the AI “black box” with IBM Granite. Build and deploy AI solutions with confidence.
Responsible AI matters
Enterprise AI demands enterprise-grade trust. With some models trained on pirated data or producing biased outputs, it’s easy to see why it matters. IBM® Granite® models are built with security, safety and governance at their core, giving you the confidence to build responsible AI.
Built in the open
True open source development
Unlike many "open" models that release only model weights, IBM Granite provides extensive transparency, including training data sources, methodologies and architectural decisions under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.
Model Openness Framework
IBM Granite qualifies as a Class III Open Model on the Linux® Foundation’s framework classifying the completeness and openness of models, an achievement not met by many model providers.
Industry-leading transparency
IBM has achieved a top five rank on Stanford’s Foundation Model Transparency Index, outperforming most major model providers.
Granite Guardian
Building on the robust safety and security features natively built into Granite models, Granite Guardian adds a layer of specialized safeguards. The guardrail models detect risks in prompts and responses from any AI model, helping to ensure safe and responsible deployment.
Comprehensive risk detection
Detects and mitigates hallucinations, harmful content, bias, jailbreaking attempts and RAG quality and accuracy issues across prompts, responses and agentic workflows.
Industry-leading performance
Granite Guardian models hold six of the top 10 spots on the GuardBench leaderboard, measuring how well guardrail models can detect harmful and hallucinated content as well as attempts to jailbreak safety controls.
Trusted collaborators
We don’t secure AI in isolation. IBM works closely with with leading experts and organizations to continuously test, validate and strengthen the safety and security of Granite.
Resources
Technical documentation, model cards and implementation guides for Granite models.
Comprehensive resource on how to leverage Granite models in a responsible way for enterprise use.
Taxonomy and tooling to help identify, assess and mitigate AI-related risks and enterprise implications.
Explore the essential guardrails and frameworks needed to deploy AI models responsibly at scale.
A comprehensive technical paper detailing Granite’s model architecture, training methodologies and data sources.
In-depth documentation of Granite Guardian’s capabilities, training approaches and risk detection methodologies.
IBM’s core principles for responsible AI development and approaches to building trustworthy systems.
AI governance toolkit for managing, monitoring and ensuring compliance of AI models across hybrid cloud environments.