Alec Radford and colleagues launched Talkie, a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 text, reportedly most astonished by the 1960s. The corpus opened on December 14 with TimeCapsuleLLM and Victorian London. Four and a half months later the same idea returns as a measuring instrument.
And GPT-5.5 topped KernelBench for writing GPU kernels — the model optimizing the hardware that runs it.