The few tests i ran i just got Granite4.1 tell me about YOLO repeatedly for no reasons; every questions and prompts were answered with a mention of a vision system unrelated with the task…
Aside from this just being standard corporate speak copy, there is an element of truth there - the granite models are likely to give you more plain toneless responses rather than a rainbow of emojiis. Which in corporate setting can be useful
That actually sounds nice in theory. A model for getting work done and nothing else, which doesn't have to account or be trained for any type of user engagement. Like how chatgpt/claude are wasting their capacity on social niceties and glazing the user. I don't know if granite is one such but I'd bet that many of the other popular models can't be since they are consumer facing.
I bet though internal tools are more efficient.
In this case i would guess it is mostly a justification for taking a part of the LLM pie.
"IBM, UBM, we all BM for IBM." --David Gerrold, "When HARLIE Was One".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_HARLIE_Was_One