Before revision: According to IBM's own report, Granite 8b outperforms Llama 3 on several coding related tasks within similar range of parameters, whereas readme page on Hugging Face for Granite 7b base model states it barely outperforms Llama 2 7b.
After revision: According to IBM's own report, Granite 8b outperforms Llama 3 on several coding related tasks within similar range of parameters,