John Karpentar

John Karpentar

Covers artificial intelligence for Edgewisely — model releases, pricing moves and the vendor landscape. Writes the comparative roundups, which rank products on published evidence, not vendor claims.
Z.ai's Open Model Chases Frontier for Pennies

Z.ai's Open Model Chases Frontier for Pennies

How GLM-5.3-Flash uses a new attention architecture to approach Claude Opus 4.8's coding scores at a fraction of the cost, fully open-weight.
John Karpentar AI 5 min read
Anthropic's $30 Trillion Number

Anthropic's $30 Trillion Number

A market bigger than the number is theoretical, and that's exactly the point — Anthropic isn't pitching a revenue forecast, it's pitching what kind of company it wants to be priced as.
John Karpentar AI 5 min read
Top 7 LLM Fine-Tuning Platforms in 2026

Top 7 LLM Fine-Tuning Platforms in 2026

Predibase and OpenPipe were acquired in 2025 and no longer operate as standalone products — here's who's still active, from Together AI to Unsloth.
John Karpentar Roundups 11 min read

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