How did Talkie do on X?
Talkie posted the Talkie launch from @DavidDuvenaud on Apr 27, 2026. The post has 1,469,146 views, 3,618 likes, 451 reposts, 300 quotes and 196 replies, an engagement rate of 0.31%. It ranks #450 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Announcing Talkie: a new, open-weight historical LLM! We trained and finetuned a 13B model on a newly-curated dataset of only pre-1930 data. Try it below! with @AlecRad and @status_effects 🧵
- 8.4xthe median launch175K median views
- #450of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 41xits own following36,092 followers
- Views
- 1.5M
- Likes
- 3.6K
- Reposts
- 451
- Quotes
- 300
- Replies
- 196
- Bookmarks
- 2.3K
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 1.5M views would cost $147K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $37K.
The post reached about 41 views for every follower of @DavidDuvenaud.
What launched?
David Duvenaud announced Talkie, an open-weight 13B language model trained on a curated dataset of only pre-1930 text.
How does it compare with other launches?
Talkie has more views than 84% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 8.4x the median launch's 175K views.
- Talkie1.5M
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Talkie | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 1.5M | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.31% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 41 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 300 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 15.5 | 14.2 |
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 263K | 5.6x | #278 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 15x | #134 |
| Video launch posts | 1,940 | 192.5K | 7.6x | #337 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 8.4x | #450 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 36.1K followers, the post reached 41 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 13 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 134 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 300 quote posts, 2.0 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Announcing Talkie: a new, open-weight historical LLM! We trained and finetuned a 13B model on a newly-curated dataset of only pre-1930 d…". The post runs 30 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Monday (UTC). Monday launches have a median of 181.4K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- How many views did Talkie get on X?
- 1,469,146 views. Talkie posted it from @DavidDuvenaud on Apr 27, 2026, and the post has 3,618 likes, 451 reposts, 300 quotes, 196 replies and 2,278 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Talkie a big launch on X?
- It ranks #450 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 84% of them and 8.4x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.31%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 1.5M views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 1.5M views would cost $147K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $37K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/talkie, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.