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Talkie-1930 vintage language model
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Researchers led by Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford released Talkie-1930, a 13B open-weight language model trained exclusively on English text from before 1931, designed to study how language models generalize without knowledge of modern events, technology, or post-1930 history.
- 13B parameter open-weight model trained on pre-1931 English text only
- Led by Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford
- Released April 28, 2026
- Designed for historical reasoning and generalization research
- Model has no knowledge of internet, smartphones, World War II, or post-1930 events