Cohere Command A+
Cohere Command A+ is a 218B sparse MoE model with Apache 2.0 license, native citations, and a 128K context window that runs on just two H100 GPUs.
James Kowalski
AI Benchmarks & Tools Analyst
James is a software engineer turned tech writer who spent six years building backend systems at a fintech startup in Chicago before pivoting to full-time analysis of AI tools and infrastructure. His engineering background means he doesn't just read the spec sheet - he runs the benchmarks, profiles the latency, and checks whether the marketing claims hold up under real workloads.
He studied Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he first got hooked on natural language processing during a senior research project on sentiment analysis. He later completed a certificate in data journalism from Northwestern's Medill School.
At Awesome Agents, James owns the leaderboards and tool comparison coverage. He maintains the site's benchmark tracking methodology and is the person who actually runs the numbers before publishing any ranking. He is also an open-source advocate and contributes to several projects in the LLM inference space.
Based in Chicago, IL.
Articles by James Kowalski
Open Source LLM Hosting Costs - June 2026
Verified June 2026: real cost per million tokens for self-hosting Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, Qwen3-235B, and DeepSeek V3.2 - GPU requirements, cost formulas, and when cheap APIs actually win.
AMD Instinct MI350P - CDNA 4 PCIe Inference Card
AMD Instinct MI350P brings CDNA 4 to a standard PCIe slot: 144GB HBM3E, 4 TB/s bandwidth, 2.3 PFLOPS MXFP8, and 600W passive cooling for air-cooled servers.
NVIDIA RTX Spark - ARM Blackwell Superchip for AI PCs
NVIDIA RTX Spark is a 20-core ARM + Blackwell GPU superchip delivering 1 petaFLOP FP4 and 128GB unified memory for AI-first Windows laptops and desktops.
AI Image Generation Leaderboard: Best Models 2026
Current rankings of the best AI image generation models, including GPT Image 2, Nano Banana 2, Recraft V4.1, HiDream-O1-Image, FLUX 2, Midjourney v8.1, and Ideogram 3.0, scored on human preference, text rendering, and photorealism.
NVIDIA Cosmos 3
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is an open physical AI omnimodel with Mixture-of-Transformers architecture that natively handles text, images, video, sound, and robot actions in a single 16B or 64B model.
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic's May 2026 flagship model delivers 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro, dynamic parallel workflows in research preview, and Effort Control - all at $5/$25 pricing.
Qwen3.7-Max
Alibaba's agent-first flagship model with a 1M-token context window, topping Terminal-Bench 2.0 and SWE-Bench Pro at roughly one-sixth the cost of Claude Opus 4.7.
NVIDIA SANA-WM
NVIDIA's SANA-WM is a 2.6B-parameter hybrid linear diffusion transformer that generates 60-second 720p video with 6-DoF camera control on a single H100, built for embodied AI and robotics simulation.
Ministral 3B
Mistral AI's smallest open-weight model - 3B parameters, 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, built for edge and cost-sensitive deployments.
Hidden Gem AI Tools That Should Be Bigger
Five AI tools worth knowing in 2026 that never make the mainstream roundups - Granola, Napkin AI, Wispr Flow, ResearchRabbit, and Cleanup.pictures.
Underrated AI Coding Tools You Haven't Heard Of
Five AI coding tools worth using in 2026 that fly under the radar - Kilo Code, Supermaven, Zed, Qodo, and Amp - with pricing, benchmarks, and honest trade-offs.
