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Simon Willison Emerging AI Innovations 12h ago

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Researchers have introduced Talkie, a 13B parameter language model trained specifically on historical English text from before 1931. The project includes both a base model and an instruction-tuned version designed to simulate a vintage chat interface.

Why it matters Specialized training on historical datasets demonstrates how niche linguistic constraints can reshape model persona and stylistic fidelity.
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