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April 2, 2026
IBM's 3B Model Hits 86% on Chart Summaries
Published: April 2, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Updated: April 2, 2026 at 12:29 AM
100-word summary
IBM released Granite 4.0 3B Vision, a compact model designed to pull tables and charts from enterprise documents. It scores 86.4% on Chart2Summary benchmarks, the highest among evaluated models, after training on 1.7 million chart samples spanning 24 types. The model runs as a lightweight adapter that handles both images and text, so companies can use one system for forms, multi-page PDFs, and plain chatbot queries. It's available now on HuggingFace under Apache 2.0. The real test: whether a 3-billion-parameter model can finally make quarterly report extraction feel less like archaeology.
What happened
IBM released Granite 4.0 3B Vision, a compact model designed to pull tables and charts from enterprise documents. It scores 86.4% on Chart2Summary benchmarks, the highest among evaluated models, after training on 1.7 million chart samples spanning 24 types. The model runs as a lightweight adapter that handles both images and text, so companies can use one system for forms, multi-page PDFs, and plain chatbot queries. It's available now on HuggingFace under Apache 2.0.
Why it matters
The real test: whether a 3-billion-parameter model can finally make quarterly report extraction feel less like archaeology.