Mr.Chatterbox-2.7B-Chat: a model pretrained from scratch entirely on Victorian-era texts
centerstate · reddit · 2026-10-15
A Redditor released Mr.Chatterbox-2.7B-Chat, a model both pretrained and fine-tuned from scratch exclusively on Victorian-era texts for maximum historical accuracy. The weights are on Hugging Face, the code is open source on GitHub, and the author published a narrative write-up of the build. They credit the community for answering earlier pretraining questions and invite discussion.
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