IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license

IBM publishes the Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model, a 385M‑parameter foundation model for zero‑shot forecasting with probabilistic outputs and missing‑value imputation. The blog provides weights, architecture, inference code and benchmark rankings on the GIFT‑Eval suite, and notes Apache 2.0/OpenMDW licensing for commercial use.