Meet Talkie-1930: A 13B Open-Weight LLM Trained on Pre-1931 English Text for Historical Reasoning and Generalization Research
What if a language mannequin had by no means heard of the web, smartphones, and even World War II? That’s not a hypothetical — it’s precisely what a workforce of researchers led by Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford has constructed. They name it talkie, and it could be essentially the most traditionally disciplined…
