SMRTR AIJan 12, 2026Hacker News

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

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TimeCapsuleLLM is a language model trained exclusively on historical texts from 1800-1875 London to eliminate modern bias and authentically replicate the vocabulary and worldview of that era. The model evolved from producing incoherent Victorian-style sentences in early iterations to successfully connecting real historical events with actual figures by version 1. Version 2 uses a 90GB dataset containing over 136,000 historical documents, demonstrating that training from scratch on period-specific data creates more authentic historical AI than fine-tuning modern models.

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