The models that answer the benchmark questions.

The pilot compares these two base models: the same architecture and training compute, one trained on pre-1931 text and one on modern web text. The two training sets differ in the kinds of text they contain as well as in date.

ModelKindStatus
Talkie 1930 13B base
Talkie
Run in the DEPENDENCE pilot, September 2026.
Historicalpiloted
Talkie web 13B base
Talkie
Same architecture and training compute as Talkie 1930, trained on modern web text. Downloaded; not yet run.
Modern baseplanned

Also run in the pilot, for comparison and for the public site. We plan to add one deployed frontier model to this group.

ModelKindStatus
Qwen3.5 9B
Alibaba
Run in the DEPENDENCE pilot, September 2026.
Open, instruction-tunedpiloted

Models we may add later.

ModelKindStatus
Ranke-4B
Göttlich, Loibner, Jiang, Voth
Historicalcandidate
OLMo 3 7B
AI2
Modern basecandidate
OLMo 3 32B
AI2
Modern basecandidate
Qwen3.5 9B Base
Alibaba
Modern basecandidate
Qwen 3.7 Plus
Alibaba
Run in the July 2026 pilot, now superseded.
Deployedpiloted