Founder of a listed tool
George Winthrop Fairchild
Named behind 3 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What George builds
Granite 4.2 3B C · Open-weight models
Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0.
Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Granite Guardian C · Guardrails & safety filters
Granite Guardian is IBM's family of open-weight judge models. The current 8-billion-parameter release answers yes or no on whether a prompt, response, retrieved context or function call meets a built-in or custom criterion, and the owner runs it.
Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Granite Switch 4.1 C · Decision models
Granite Switch 4.1 is IBM's open-weight 8B and 30B Granite 4.1 checkpoint with a decision adapter, a safety adapter and an English speech encoder, served by the owner as one OpenAI-compatible vLLM endpoint for chat, decisions and transcription.
Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Charles Ranlett Flint Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- Herman Hollerith Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- Inkit Padhi First author, Granite Guardian paper (IBM Research)
- Parul Awasthy First author, Granite Embedding R2 Models
Questions
Who is George Winthrop Fairchild?
George Winthrop Fairchild was an investor in the time-recording industry who formed the International Time Recording Company in 1900. He became president of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company at its formation in 1911 and was its chairman, and IBM's after the 1924 renaming, until his death that year.
What does IBM make?
Anchor Terminal lists Granite 4.2 3B, Granite Guardian and Granite Switch 4.1 from IBM. Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0.
How are George's tools graded?
Granite 4.2 3B is graded C, 59.8 out of 100; Granite Guardian is graded C, 60.1 out of 100; Granite Switch 4.1 is graded C, 59.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (13)
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b/discussions
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ranlett_Flint
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Fairchild
- https://www.ibm.com/granite
- https://www.ibm.com/us-en
- https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/models/guardian
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ibm-granite/granite-guardian/main/README.md
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-4.1-8b/discussions
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/generative-computing/granite-switch/main/README.md
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