Granite Docling
IBM's free-to-download model that reads documents and pages, turning them into clean text and structured formats, made for developers building document tools.
trckr found this on Nov 9, 417 days after it came out, so it sent no alert. Its release date comes from Hugging Face.
Key facts
- Released
- Sep 18, 2025
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.
Can I use it?
In an app
No app mentioned so far.
For developers
No developer access mentioned so far.
Download
Free to download and run on your own computer: it has Open weights: The model's files are public, so anyone can download it, run it on their own computer and build on it, usually for free. trckr labels these "Open"..
The details
Granite Docling is a 258M-parameter image-and-text model from IBM Research, built for converting document pages into structured output and integrated with the Docling pipeline. It is released under Apache 2.0 as a free download on Hugging Face: The website where labs and researchers publish models anyone can download. Think of it as an app store for AI models., with Quantisation: Shrinking a model by storing its numbers less precisely, so it fits on smaller computers. A little less accurate, much lighter. FP8, GGUF, AWQ and MLX are common formats. and GGUF variants.
Model ID: The exact name developers type to use a model, like gpt-5-mini. New IDs often show up in a lab's systems before the official announcement, which is how trckr spots many releases early.
ibm-granite/granite-docling-258Mibm-granite/granite-docling-258M-mlxibm-granite/granite-docling-258M-GGUFTimeline
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