Granite Switch 4.1.1 adds multilingual speech model
Hugging Face: Granite Switch 4.1.1, Update models like you update software
The update approach could streamline how organizations maintain and adapt AI models without full retraining cycles.
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Granite Switch 4.1.1 is a patch release for a modular language model architecture that allows specialized adapters to be added to a base model without retraining the entire system. The update includes an improved multilingual speech-to-text model across 10 languages and an updated decision adapter with better performance. What distinguishes this release is that the base model remained untouched while only new components were updated, allowing rapid deployment similar to traditional software updates. The developers indicate they are working toward enabling third-party developers to build their own adapters and iterate on model versions independently.
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