A New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek Records
Though many are so damaged that their meaning is probably lost, scholars have the ability to restore the rest by methodically filling in missing words or phrases. To accelerate that laborious task, researchers have turned to artificial intelligence.On Wednesday, the Austrian Academy of Science will release “the world’s first advanced large language model for Ancient Greek,” developed in partnership with French AI lab Mistral and technology services firm Sail Reply. The model, Apollo, is trained on roughly 600 million historical Greek words drawn from manuscripts, papyri, and inscriptions.The model will be freely available to academics through a chatbot interface.
- ▪Though many are so damaged that their meaning is probably lost, scholars have the ability to restore the rest by methodically filling in missing words or phrases.
- ▪To accelerate that laborious task, researchers have turned to artificial intelligence.On Wednesday, the Austrian Academy of Science will release “the world’s first advanced large language model for Ancient Greek,” developed in partnership w
- ▪The model, Apollo, is trained on roughly 600 million historical Greek words drawn from manuscripts, papyri, and inscriptions.The model will be freely available to academics through a chatbot interface.
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Joel KhaliliBusinessSep 22, 2026 5:30 AMA New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek RecordsIn the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments.Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyAcademic libraries across the globe are stuffed with hundreds of thousands of Ancient Greek papyrus fragments. Though many are so damaged that their meaning is probably lost, scholars have the ability to restore the rest by methodically filling in missing words or phrases.
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