---
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
- NPU
---
# Granite-4.0-Micro
Run **Granite-4.0-Micro** optimized for **Qualcomm NPUs** with [nexaSDK](https://sdk.nexa.ai).

## Quickstart

1. **Install NexaSDK** and create a free account at [sdk.nexa.ai](https://sdk.nexa.ai)
2. **Activate your device** with your access token:

   ```bash
   nexa config set license '<access_token>'
   ```
3. Run the model on Qualcomm NPU in one line:

   ```bash
   nexa infer NexaAI/Granite-4-Micro-NPU
   ```

## Model Description
**Granite-4.0-Micro** is a 3B parameter instruction-tuned model in the Granite 4.0 family, developed by IBM.  
It’s optimized for **long-context reasoning (128K tokens)**, efficient inference, and enterprise-ready capabilities such as tool calling and retrieval-augmented generation. The model balances compact size with strong performance across general NLP tasks, making it suitable for both experimentation and production workloads.

## Features
- **Compact transformer architecture**: 3B parameters with GQA, RoPE, SwiGLU, and RMSNorm layers.  
- **Instruction-following & tool calling**: Tuned with supervised finetuning, alignment (RLHF), and model merging for robust enterprise tasks.  
- **Multilingual support**: Covers 12+ languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Chinese.  
- **Extended context window**: Supports sequences up to **128K tokens** for long-form reasoning.  

## Use Cases
- Conversational AI and virtual assistants.  
- Enterprise applications needing **tool/API calling** and structured outputs.  
- Long-document summarization, classification, and extraction.  
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for knowledge-intensive workflows.  
- Lightweight coding assistants and multilingual dialog systems.

## Inputs and Outputs
**Input**: Natural language text prompts, chat conversations, or tool-augmented requests.  
**Output**: Natural language responses—answers, explanations, summaries, structured JSON for function calls, or code snippets.

## License  
This model is released under the **Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0)** license.  
Non-commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted with attribution.  
For commercial licensing, please contact **dev@nexa.ai**.