IBM Opens Granite Models, Ansible Assistant
Key Points
- IBM announced the open‑source release of its Granite family of decoder‑only foundation models, trained on code from 116 programming languages, to make generative coding tools widely accessible.
- Granite is positioned to automate routine developer tasks—such as unit‑test creation, documentation, and vulnerability checks—and to enable new AI agents that can write, explain, and fix code.
- IBM emphasizes that open innovation and community collaboration are essential for building effective coding assistants, hoping developers will build tools ranging from code generators to advanced editors using the models.
- The on‑premises version of IBM Watson X Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Light Speed, slated for general availability in June, adds chat‑style playbook generation and explanation features to accelerate Ansible automation.
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# IBM Opens Granite Models, Ansible Assistant **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rePgDRtACLo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rePgDRtACLo) **Duration:** 00:03:30 ## Summary - IBM announced the open‑source release of its Granite family of decoder‑only foundation models, trained on code from 116 programming languages, to make generative coding tools widely accessible. - Granite is positioned to automate routine developer tasks—such as unit‑test creation, documentation, and vulnerability checks—and to enable new AI agents that can write, explain, and fix code. - IBM emphasizes that open innovation and community collaboration are essential for building effective coding assistants, hoping developers will build tools ranging from code generators to advanced editors using the models. - The on‑premises version of IBM Watson X Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Light Speed, slated for general availability in June, adds chat‑style playbook generation and explanation features to accelerate Ansible automation. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rePgDRtACLo&t=0s) **IBM Open‑Sources Granite Code Models** - IBM announced the release of its decoder‑only Granite foundation models and Watson X code assistant to the open‑source community, aiming to simplify development across 116 programming languages with tools for code generation, debugging, testing, and documentation. ## Full Transcript
open sourcing IBM's Granite code models
and IBM Watson X code assistant for Red
Hat anable light speed all on this
episode of IBM Tech
now to get things started this week IBM
is releasing a family of granite code
models to the open-source Community the
aim is to make coding as easy as
possible for as many developers as
possible what is granite you ask Granite
is a family of IBM built Foundation
models that are available in Watson x.
developed by IBM research the granite
models use a decoder architecture which
is what underpins the ability of today's
large language models to predict the
next word in the sequence we're
releasing a series of decoder only
Granite code models for code generative
tasks trained with code written in 116
programming languages these models have
a wide range of uses from complex
application modernization tasks to on
device memory constrained use cases with
tools built on the IBM Granite code
models we Envision a ton of ways to make
developers lives easier including agents
that could write code tools that can
explain why code isn't working and
suggestions for how to fix it much of a
developer's day may be consumed with
tedious but essential tasks including
generating unit tests writing
documentation or running vulnerability
tests we're hoping that the open
sourcing of these models can help
automate these tasks so why are we doing
this simply put we believe in the power
of open Innovation to get to a future
where writing code is as easy as talking
to an alwayson assistant we want to
reach as many developers as possible no
effective system is ever created by a
single individual the best work Builds
on the collective knowledge of those who
have come before we're excited to see
what you'll build with these models
whether that's new code generation tools
state-of-the-art editing software or
anything in between to learn more about
the open sourcing of granite check out
the link in the description of this
video next up we're going to take a look
at another solution designed to support
AI assisted code development and
application modernization IBM Watson X
code assistant for Red Hat anible light
speed it accomplishes these tasks by
equipping developers with Gen
capabilities to accelerate the creation
of anible playbooks in early 2024 we
introduced model customization and a no
cost 30-day trial for this product now
building on this momentum we are excited
to announce the on premises release of
Watson X code assistant for Red Hat
anible light speed set for General
availability in June this release
features exciting new capabilities
including Playbook generation and
explanation Playbook generation with
Watson X code assistant for Red Hat
anible light speed offers a chat style
experience that allows you to generate
and explain anible content from single
task prompts it collects your prompts
and returns an outline of an anible
Playbook simplifying the process of
creating an understanding anible content
all of this will accelerate and
democratize anible content creation help
you acquire comprehensive of
explanations of anable content and
centralized recommendation information
to learn more about the on premises
release of Watson X code assistant for
Red Hat anable light speed hit the link
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