Can gzip be a language model?(nathan.rs)
384 points by networked | 149 comments
A blog post by Nathan Barry exploring whether gzip compression can be used as a language model to generate text, with an interactive beam search demo.
#text-generation on Hacker News
4 stories tagged text-generation, newest first.
Qwen3.8-2.4T(huggingface.co)
692 points by Philpax | 161 comments
Hugging Face model card for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts text generation model from Qwen in Transformers format.
Markov chains are the original language models(elijahpotter.dev)
427 points by chilipepperhott | 154 comments
A blog post by Elijah Potter explaining Markov chains as early language models and how they generate text.
Markov chains are funnier than LLMs(emnudge.dev)
477 points by todsacerdoti | 211 comments
A blog post arguing that Markov chain text generators produce funnier output than large language models because they are less predictable.