Granite 4.1, IBM Bob & the quantum computing future
From Mixture of Experts by IBM
April 30, 2026 · 48 min · Season 1 · Episode 105
About this episode
The episode discusses IBM Granite 4.1, Project Bob, and the future of quantum computing with insights from industry experts.
Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts What do enterprises need to make AI work? This week on Mixture of Experts, join host Tim Hwang and panelists Marina Danilevsky, Gabe Goodhart, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, and special guest Jamie Garcia. First, we break down IBM Granite 4.1, a family of specialized multimodal models for vision, speech, and embedding tasks, and Project Bob, an agentic coding assistant. Next, we analyze Google DeepMind's DiLoCo distributed training breakthrough that could reshape AI infrastructure and power consumption. Then, we unpack DeepSeek V4, a new 1.6 trillion parameter model featuring 3% activation rates that's rewriting inference economics. Finally, Jamie Garcia, Director of Strategic Growth and Quantum Partnerships at IBM, takes us behind the scenes of IBM's quantum computing strategy, university partnerships, and the path to quantum advantage. All this and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts. The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. Subscribe for AI updates →…
People in this episode
Host: Tim Hwang
Guest: Jamie Garcia
Topics covered
- AI infrastructure
- quantum computing
- multimodal models
- enterprise AI
- distributed training
- inference economics
Keywords
- Granite 4.1
- Project Bob
- quantum computing
- AI infrastructure
- DeepSeek V4
- Google DeepMind
- enterprise AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: IBM, Google DeepMind
Products: Granite 4.1, Project Bob, DeepSeek V4, quantum computing
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