Research Team Presents Apollo Restore, a 24B Model for Reconstructing Ancient Greek Text Gaps

Researchers from Mistral AI, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Reply and Northeastern University have presented Apollo Restore, a 24-billion-parameter language model designed to reconstruct missing passages in fragmentary Ancient Greek papyri and inscriptions. The system, described in a Sept. 18, 2026 preprint, gives scholars ranked restoration candidates for damaged texts whose missing spans are often impossible to measure.