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Hugging Face Blog Announces Granite Switch 4.1 with Unified Endpoint

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Hugging Face's blog announced Granite Switch 4.1, a model that supports chat, decisions, and speech from a single endpoint. The announcement highlights the model's versatility in handling multiple interaction modes without requiring separate deployments.

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    Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint

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