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Some notes on talkie, a new "vintage language model" from a team including Alec Radford (yes, that Alec Radford) "trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text" simonwillison.net/2026/Ap…
Talkie, a vintage language model trained on 260B tokens of pre-1931 English text, launches from a team that includes OpenAI co-founder Alec Radford.
Some notes on talkie, a new "vintage language model" from a team including Alec Radford (yes, that Alec Radford) "trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text" simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/28/...
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