By @IBMResearch
Publication Date: 2026-02-13 14:00:00
IBM’s family of Granite language models recently earned a 95% score on Stanford’s Foundation Model Transparency Index, achieving the highest-ever mark in the benchmark’s history and outranking the next-best model by 23 percentage points.
The results stand in contrast to many of IBM’s tech industry peers whose transparency rankings have slipped in recent years, even as sensitive enterprise systems and workflows incorporate more generative AI.
Few of Granite’s creators were surprised by the strong showing. Transparency was a guiding principle from the outset, they said, for ethical as much as business reasons. “Our pitch to customers all along has been, ‘Here is how the sausage is made,’” said Heiko Ludwig, an IBM researcher who manages Granite data platforms. “We’re very open about it.”
IBM was among the first tech companies to indemnify its models on watsonx against copyright claims, shielding customers from potential lawsuits arising from proprietary content…
