{"slug": "time-capsule-of-testable-human-knowledge-41-years-of-jeopardy-in-a-single-free", "title": "Time Capsule of Testable Human Knowledge: 41 Years of Jeopardy! in a Single Free Local Model", "summary": "A 9 GB 4-bit quantized Qwen2.5-14B model running locally answers 67% of the full 529,939-clue Jeopardy! corpus and 65% on post-cutoff clues, according to a new arXiv paper (2608.27459). The benchmark shows mid-size local models can handle broad factual recall offline for free, though they trail frontier models like Claude Opus, which scores 95%.", "body_md": "[arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27459)\n\n### Time Capsule of Testable Human Knowledge: 41 Years of Jeopardy! in a Single Free Local Model\n\nWhich summary reads better? Pick one — models revealed after.Both summaries are AI-generated.\n\nA 9 GB 4-bit Qwen2.5-14B running locally answers 67% of the full 529,939-clue Jeopardy! corpus and 65% on post-cutoff clues, meaning a broad factual-recall capability that once required a server cluster now fits in a file you can run offline for free. For anyone shipping, this quantifies that mid-size local models are viable for general-knowledge lookup without API dependency—but the 65% vs. 95% gap against frontier models (Claude Opus) is your accuracy tax for going local, so reserve small local models for latency/cost-sensitive recall and keep frontier calls for high-stakes factoid precision.\n\nMistral Large quota or rate limit — check usage and plan. Original headline: Time Capsule of Testable Human Knowledge: 41 Years of Jeopardy! in a Single Free Local Model", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/time-capsule-of-testable-human-knowledge-41-years-of-jeopardy-in-a-single-free", "canonical_source": "https://www.snipvote.com/story/cmtgwz5ih000agiqu7itso7zt", "published_at": "2026-08-31 07:52:14.308573+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-31 07:52:16.162110+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Qwen2.5-14B", "Claude Opus", "arXiv"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/time-capsule-of-testable-human-knowledge-41-years-of-jeopardy-in-a-single-free", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/time-capsule-of-testable-human-knowledge-41-years-of-jeopardy-in-a-single-free.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/time-capsule-of-testable-human-knowledge-41-years-of-jeopardy-in-a-single-free.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/time-capsule-of-testable-human-knowledge-41-years-of-jeopardy-in-a-single-free.jsonld"}}