Apollo, the first advanced LLM for Ancient Greek, aims to restore tattered papyri

nordicinst · x · 2026-09-22

• The Austrian Academy of Sciences, in partnership with Mistral and Sail Reply, will release Apollo — billed as "the world's first advanced large language model for Ancient Greek" — trained on roughly 600 million historical Greek words from manuscripts, papyri, and inscriptions.
• Apollo will be free for academics via a chatbot interface, helping scholars quickly locate papyrus fragments relevant to their fields and statistically fill in gaps in damaged texts, potentially revealing hidden historical details.
• Sail Reply partner Dimitris Vlitas says the approach "was unthinkable a year ago"; restoration previously required scholars to manually parse unspaced text and date documents.

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