Side-by-side comparison of Llama 3.1 405B (Meta · USA) and Talkie-1930-13B-IT (Talkie-LM (research)) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Llama 3.1 405B is rated conditional; Talkie-1930-13B-IT is conditional. They part ways on licence: Llama 3.1 405B is "Llama community", Talkie-1930-13B-IT is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Frontier-class 405B open model. Self-hosting requires serious compute (8×H100 minimum at FP8). Same Llama community licence caveats as the rest of the family. | Conditional Per the published model card, Talkie-1930-13B-IT is an Apache 2.0 instruction-tuned 13B model trained exclusively on pre-1931 English text (260B tokens, sourced from public-domain reference works). The training-data transparency is unusually clean for AI Act Article 53 purposes; the limits are vendor jurisdiction (a US-affiliated research collaboration with no published EU DPA) and the deliberate vintage corpus, which makes the model unsuitable for any task requiring post-1931 factual knowledge. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-28 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Llama community | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | With caps | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Documented |
| Origin | USA | US (research) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 17/100 | — |
| Speed | 31 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $3.69/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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