# Arvind Krishna

> Arvind Krishna is chairman at President and Chief Executive Officer. Granite 4.2 3B, Granite Embedding Small English R2, Granite Guardian and Granite Switch 4.1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Arvind Krishna is chairman, president and chief executive of IBM. Over some 30 years at the company he headed IBM Research, ran its Cloud and Cognitive Software unit and drove the $34 billion purchase of Red Hat. He holds an undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

## What Arvind builds

- [Granite 4.2 3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md), graded C, 59.8/100, in Open-weight models. Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Granite Embedding Small English R2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2.md), graded E, 41.7/100, in Embeddings & rerankers. Granite Embedding Small English R2 is IBM's open-weight English text embedding model, a 47M-parameter ModernBERT bi-encoder that returns 384-dimension vectors for inputs of up to 8,192 tokens, trained on permissively licensed and IBM data, under Apache 2.0. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Granite Guardian](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian.md), graded C, 60.1/100, in Guardrails & safety filters. Granite Guardian is IBM's family of open-weight judge models. The current 8-billion-parameter release answers yes or no on whether a prompt, response, retrieved context or function call meets a built-in or custom criterion, and the owner runs it. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Granite Switch 4.1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch.md), graded C, 59.5/100, in Decision models. Granite Switch 4.1 is IBM's open-weight 8B and 30B Granite 4.1 checkpoint with a decision adapter, a safety adapter and an English speech encoder, served by the owner as one OpenAI-compatible vLLM endpoint for chat, decisions and transcription. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Charles Ranlett Flint](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-ranlett-flint/), Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- [George Winthrop Fairchild](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/george-winthrop-fairchild/), Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- [Herman Hollerith](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/herman-hollerith/), Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- [Inkit Padhi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/inkit-padhi/), First author, Granite Guardian paper (IBM Research)
- [Jay Gambetta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jay-gambetta/), Director of IBM Research
- [Parul Awasthy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/parul-awasthy/), First author, Granite Embedding R2 Models

## Questions

### Who is Arvind Krishna?

Arvind Krishna is chairman, president and chief executive of IBM. Over some 30 years at the company he headed IBM Research, ran its Cloud and Cognitive Software unit and drove the $34 billion purchase of Red Hat. He holds an undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

### What does IBM make?

Anchor Terminal lists Granite 4.2 3B, Granite Embedding Small English R2, Granite Guardian and Granite Switch 4.1 from IBM. Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0.

### How are Arvind's tools graded?

Granite 4.2 3B is graded C, 59.8 out of 100; Granite Embedding Small English R2 is graded E, 41.7 out of 100; Granite Guardian is graded C, 60.1 out of 100; Granite Switch 4.1 is graded C, 59.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b/discussions
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ranlett_Flint
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Fairchild
- https://www.ibm.com/granite
- https://www.ibm.com/us-en
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2
- https://huggingface.co/pawasthy
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2/discussions
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Winthrop_Fairchild
- https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/models/guardian
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ibm-granite/granite-guardian/main/README.md
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-4.1-8b/discussions
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/generative-computing/granite-switch/main/README.md

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