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Granite Speech 5.0 2B

Granite Speech 5.0 2B is a multimodal model from IBM, first covered on 21 October 2026. It is available as open weights you can download and run (licence: Apache 2.0).

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Who makes Granite Speech 5.0 2B?
Granite Speech 5.0 2B is made by IBM. IBM news →
When was Granite Speech 5.0 2B released?
The first report of Granite Speech 5.0 2B's release that Digest AI covered was published on 21 October 2026. IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for multilingual speech recognition →
What type of model is Granite Speech 5.0 2B?
Granite Speech 5.0 2B is a multimodal model.
Are Granite Speech 5.0 2B's weights open?
Yes. Granite Speech 5.0 2B is released as open weights that can be downloaded and run, under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Where is Granite Speech 5.0 2B available?
Granite Speech 5.0 2B is available as open weights that can be downloaded and run. huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b ↗

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1 story about Granite Speech 5.0 2B

  1. IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for multilingual speech recognition

    IBM announced the Granite Speech 5.0 2B model, a 2 billion‑parameter speech‑language system aimed at automatic speech recognition (ASR) and automatic speech translation (AST) in English, French, German, Spanish,…

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