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IBM relicensed its time-series forecaster off non-commercial, then said it will not maintain it

By the Newsroom · From IBM Research’s Hugging Face post, 9 September

Granite PatchTST-FM-r2 ships under Apache 2.0 or OpenMDW 1.0, the user’s choice. Its predecessor r1 carries `cc-by-nc-sa-4.0`, which kept it out of products. The card also states IBM “will not be maintaining this code going forward.” The repository was created on 7 August, a month before the announcement. IBM places its CRPS geometric mean of 0.467 second on GIFT-Eval among replicable zero-shot models, behind one entrant it does not name.

What it changes If you shelved r1 on licence grounds, re-run that evaluation. Then price the absence of a maintenance commitment into the decision, because the licence is the only thing you are being given.

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IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2

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Written by: Roman Vaculin, Wesley M. Gifford, Jiri Navratil, Chandra Reddy and Ayhan Sebin
For: IBM Research
What they gain if this is true: The paper’s best guess: IBM gains Granite adoption and enterprise pull-through, and the permissive licence is what it trades for that; the maintenance disclaimer is what it declines to trade.

Published in the edition of Thursday, 10 September 2026 · Beat: Models

IBM relicensed its time-series forecaster off non-commercial, then said it will not maintain it

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