Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/28/talkie/ "Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world? What would they ask you?" Really interesting experiment, an LLM trained only on historical data. Can such models rediscover general relativity? (see also Machina Mirabilis)