Some notes on talkie, a new "vintage language model" from a team including Alec Radford (yes, that Alec Radford) "trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text"
GENERATIVE AI
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Function Calls Driving Application State Changes Automatically
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The cursor was added by @jxnlco only to follow along, but it’s purely decorative for the demo! No computer use involved. It’s the function calls that are changing the state of the applications, like filling out the form in JavaScript.
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Conductor Framework Orchestrates AI Agents Using Natural Language
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Learning to Orchestrate Agents in Natural Language with the Conductor Fugu Blog: https://
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Google’s Agent Factory Podcast: Building AI Agents with CLI Tools
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Google's new Agent Factory Podcast is now live. Take a deeper look at Agents CLI and ADK for building AI Agents in minutes. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and any other coding agents.
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OpenAI’s Realtime API Demonstrates Fast Speech Recognition and Function Calling
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The Realtime API is fast.
— Romain Huet (@romainhuet) 28 avril 2026
This demo by @jxnlco is running at real speed! No computer use, just realtime speech + function calling.
The model is listening, deciding when to call functions to update state, and yes, it doesn’t always have to talk back! https://t.co/2cK4jzI7rIThe Realtime API is fast. This demo by @jxnlco is running at real speed! No computer use, just realtime speech + function calling. The model is listening, deciding when to call functions to update state, and yes, it doesn’t always have to talk back!
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DeepSeek v4 Now Supports Fill-in-the-Middle Capability
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Also the new @deepseek_ai v4 supports FIM now! 😀 (Requires using the beta header.)
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OpenAI Engineering Managers Discuss Productivity at Happy Hour
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productive happy hour with a number of openai engineering managers today
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Vintage LLM Runs on Device: Pre-1931 Siri Era
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The new LLM trained only on pre-1931 text is small enough that it can potentially run on device, so, with the right tools, you can get a fully vintage version of Siri, but from the era of Downton Abbey. Here, I asked for it to arrange for sushi delivery in Philadelphia. Hmmm…
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Claude Opus outperforms ChatGPT and Gemini on deck design task
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Just gave Claude (Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6), ChatGPT 5.5, and Gemini 3.1 the same prompt to build a deck design. Gemini & ChatGPT outputs were intern-level at best. Claude was senior designer. Crushed it. Not surprised. Kept prompt simple: “I’d like to create a slide template
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AI Model Lacks Knowledge of Historical and Technological Events
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Interesting, this is an AI model that doesn't know about World War II or the Cold War—it might not even know that digital computers or AI itself exist! https://t.co/gx7Z5e55rs
— 机器之心 JIQIZHIXIN (@jiqizhixin) 28 avril 2026Interesting, this is an AI model that doesn't know about World War II or the Cold War—it might not even know that digital computers or AI itself exist!