Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint
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Why it matters
One endpoint can serve chat, guardrail decisions and speech transcription at about the VRAM of the base model, reusing KV cacheThe memory a model keeps about text it has already read, so generating each new token doesn't require reprocessing the whole conversation.Full definition → across adapters. benchmarkA standard public test set for comparing AI models — the shared scoreboards behind every "model X beats model Y" claim.Full definition → claims come from IBM and are unverified here.
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KV cache — The memory a model keeps about text it has already read, so generating each new token doesn't require reprocessing the whole conversation.
benchmark — A standard public test set for comparing AI models — the shared scoreboards behind every "model X beats model Y" claim.