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Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts

Rob Beschizza
Apr 29, 2026
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There are various LLMs that focus on public domain texts, for ethical or experimental reasons, but most also incorporate modern material (such as Wikipedia) so they have a fully contemporary awareness of history, society, current events and the rest of it. Talkie, however, is a 13B-parameter language model exclusively trained on English texts prio…

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