ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Talkie (Alec Radford & David Duvenaud) release so far: Talkie on Apr 30, 2026. Talkie: 13B open-weight LLM trained only on pre-1930 text. The entry below has primary-source links and the episode where we covered it live.
Talkie: 13B open-weight LLM trained only on pre-1930 text
Alec Radford and David Duvenaud released Talkie, a 13B open-weight LLM trained exclusively on pre-1930 text. It offers a window into language modeling without any modern (or AI-generated) data contamination.
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