# IBM insights

Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged IBM.

Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/ibm/

## Topics
- [Agent systems](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/agents/): Agent runtimes, handoffs, tools, and the boundaries that make them reviewable.
- [Governance](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/governance/): Policy, identity, authorization, approvals, and evidence for consequential work.
- [Infrastructure](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/infrastructure/): Model serving, sandboxes, tool services, and deployment boundaries.
- [Models](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/models/): Inference choices, local serving, compatibility, and operational tradeoffs.

## Stories
- [NASA and IBM launched a lunar foundation model with code and model access for science work](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-nasa-ibm-lunar-foundation-model-september-2026/)
  NASA and IBM launched a lunar science foundation model on September 10, 2026, trained primarily on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data and released with code.
- [IBM Research launched an open agent leaderboard with Exgentic evaluation tooling](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-open-agent-leaderboard-exgentic-may-2026/)
  IBM Research launched the Open Agent Leaderboard on May 18, 2026, reporting quality and cost for full agent systems across shared benchmarks.
- [IBM put Spyre’s commercial boundary on dates, host systems and card counts](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-spyre-commercial-availability-october-2025/)
  IBM announced Spyre on October 7, 2025, with z17 and LinuxONE 5 availability slated for October 28 and Power11 for early December.
- [IBM released Granite-Docling-258M as a compact document-conversion VLM](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-granite-docling-258m-september-2025/)
  IBM released Granite-Docling-258M on September 24, 2025, an Apache-2.0 258M vision-language model for structured document conversion.
- [IBM and NASA opened Surya for heliophysics research, with a NASA technical record of its solar inputs](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-nasa-surya-heliophysics-august-2025/)
  IBM announced Surya on August 20, 2025 as an open heliophysics foundation model developed with NASA for work with solar-observation data.
- [IBM put watsonx Orchestrate agent building and its ADK into technology preview](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-watsonx-orchestrate-agent-builder-preview-april-2025/)
  IBM’s April 30, 2025 watsonx Orchestrate release introduced AI-agent building and an Agent Development Kit in technology preview for selected customers.
- [ESA and IBM released TerraMind as a multimodal Earth-observation foundation model](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-esa-ibm-terramind-earth-observation-april-2025/)
  ESA and IBM released the first TerraMind version on April 22, 2025, presenting a multimodal model for combining several types of Earth-observation data.
- [Granite 4.0 made memory behavior an architecture-level concern](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-granite-4-hybrid-architecture-october-2025/)
  IBM released Granite 4.0 on October 2, 2025 with hybrid Mamba-2 and transformer designs, shifting deployment review toward memory under long context and concurrent sessions.
- [Granite 3.2 made reasoning mode a route-level choice](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-granite-3-2-reasoning-control-february-2025/)
  IBM released Granite 3.2 on February 26, 2025 with controllable experimental reasoning and a model card for the 8B instruction artifact, making route policy observable.
- [Granite 3.1 put 128K context on the release record](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-granite-3-1-long-context-december-2024/)
  IBM released Granite 3.1 on December 18, 2024 with a 128K context window across dense, MoE, and Guardian models, changing the test boundary for long inputs.


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