Founder of a listed tool
Herman Hollerith
Named behind 3 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Herman builds
Granite 4.2 3B C · 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.
Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Granite Guardian C · 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.
Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Granite Switch 4.1 C · 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.
Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Charles Ranlett Flint Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- George Winthrop Fairchild Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- Inkit Padhi First author, Granite Guardian paper (IBM Research)
- Parul Awasthy First author, Granite Embedding R2 Models
Questions
Who is Herman Hollerith?
Herman Hollerith was a statistician and inventor who developed the electromechanical punched-card tabulating machine. The company he founded was one of those amalgamated in 1911 into the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which was renamed IBM in 1924.
What does IBM make?
Anchor Terminal lists Granite 4.2 3B, 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 Herman's tools graded?
Granite 4.2 3B is graded C, 59.8 out of 100; Granite Guardian is graded C, 60.1 out of 100; Granite Switch 4.1 is graded C, 59.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (13)
- 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://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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