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  October 2026 · 9 min read

  History Language Models

  This post builds on our paper “A Language Model from 1913: Pretraining on Historical Text”, accepted to the EMNLP 2026 Main Conference and co-authored by Xiaoxi Luo, Zachary Shinnick, Niclas Griesshaber, Yixuan Wang, Junchi Yu, Freda Shi,…

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  November 2025 · 7 min read

  Towards AI Economic History

  This week’s release of Gemini 3 Pro makes an ongoing shift even more visible: the nature of low-level work in economic history is changing. Projects that once required armies of research assistants can now be completed by a single economic…

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