Granite Switch 4.1.1 updates model capabilities like software
IBM’s compatible patch updates speech recognition and decision adapters without recomputing the Granite Switch base model.
AT A GLANCE
Key points
- Version 4.1.1 is backwards compatible with Granite Switch 4.1.
- The updated Granite Speech ASR model supports ten languages.
- The Decision adapter was revised for Jev Decision Index performance.
- Adapters can be deployed without changing the base model.
What is changing?
The IBM Granite team released Granite Switch 4.1.1 on October 29. It describes the release as a backwards-compatible patch for 4.1 that requires no migration. Instead of recomputing the base model, the architecture lets teams swap selected adapters to add updated capabilities on one endpoint.
The patch includes an updated Granite Speech 5.0 model for speech-to-text across ten languages. Native punctuation and capitalization are intended to make transcripts ready for downstream models without a separate formatting pass.
The Decision adapter in granitelib-core was also updated for improved overall performance on the Jev Decision Index test set. IBM says it is working on tutorials and an Adapter SDK for developers and third parties to build their own adapters, but those are not presented as released products yet.
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Source date: 29 October 2026.
Published by AI Radar: 29 Oct 2026, 17:04 (Istanbul, UTC+3).
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