INTERACTIVE MUSEUM

Ancient AI

Chat with older AI models in the interfaces of their time.

An interactive museum of language models: talk to available specimens through the interfaces of their era, watch the countdowns for closed models, and explore a permanent collection of open weights.

ROLE
Design & engineering
TIMELINE
July 2026 – Present
STATUS
Live

A museum you
can talk to.

WHY I BUILT IT
“Some of the models I used every day simply vanished from the products they once lived in.”

The experience pairs a museum catalogue with working conversations. GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4 and GPT-4o have ChatGPT interfaces from 2022, 2023 and 2024. Closed models carry a countdown; open-weight models belong to the permanent collection. In Memoriam records the models that can no longer answer.

01 / THE EXPIRING WING

Speak while you can.

Available closed models are paired with a countdown and a chat interface from their era.

02 / THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

Open weights, preserved.

A separate collection for models whose weights can be kept. GPT-2 is currently listed as coming soon.

03 / IN MEMORIAM

A record of the departed.

Models that can no longer answer retain their place in the catalogue.

under the hood.

  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • React
  • Vite
  • chi
  • OpenAI API
  • Anthropic API
  • OpenRouter API