Their Granite family of models is actually pretty good! They just aren't working on the mainstream large LLMs that capture all the attention.

IBM is always very conscious of what their clients need (and the large consultancy business provides a very comprehensive view). It just turns out their clients don’t need IBM to invest in large frontier models.

ibm developed SSMs/mamba models and also releasing trainings datasets i think, also quantum computing is strategic option..

For sure but do you see them at any relevant leader boards? Any news how good they are?

I don't.

I know their models, but not because i constantly read about it

https://huggingface.co/ibm here is very interesting research going https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite