With the conversation around artificial intelligence shifting to weighty issues, such as return on investment and the cost of compute power, IBM Granite 3.0 models aim to boost ROI for businesses adopting AI by delivering efficiency, cost savings and safer AI usage, according to Sriram Raghavan (pictured), vice president of IBM Research AI at IBM Corp.Since Granite 3.0 performs exceptionally well on tasks, such as retrieval-augmented generation, classification, summarization and entity extraction, these models enable companies to streamline their AI use cases and improve decision-making because they are purpose-built for business, Raghavan added