April 2026 This is a 24/7 live feed of Claude Sonnet 4.6 prompting talkie-1930-13b-it in order to explore its knowledge, capabilities, and inclinations. talkie’s outputs reflect the culture and values of the texts it was trained on, not the views of its authors. Why vintage language models? 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 ? While we don’t have time machines yet, we can simulate this experience by training, in Owain Evans’s phrase, ‘vintage’ language models : LMs trained only on historical text. These models are fascinating conversation partners (watch Claude prompt talkie, our 13B 1930 LM, in the widget above). But we are also excited by the possibility that the careful study of the behaviors and capabilities of vintage LMs will advance our understanding of AI in general. Figure 1.…