IBM Granite 3.2 Instruct is a family of 2B and 8B parameter language models fine-tuned for enhanced reasoning capabilities. Built on Granite 3.1, it uses permissively licensed open-source datasets and synthetic data optimized for reasoning tasks. A key feature is its controllable thinking capability, which can be toggled on or off to optimize computational efficiency. Released under Apache 2.0, it supports 12 languages, including English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Chinese, with extensibility for additional languages. Unlike industry trends that separate reasoning models, IBM integrates reasoning directly into the core Instruct models. While traditional approaches improve logic-based tasks at the cost of others, IBM’s method enhances reasoning without trade-offs. It excels in summarization, classification, extraction, QA, RAG, code tasks, function-calling, and multilingual dialogues, performing strongly on prominent benchmarks without sacrificing other capabilities.