Who we are

The 3TC is a London-based AI lab supporting the development of state-of-the-art language models by providing access to high-quality human-written text from historical newspapers.

Through cutting-edge applied research in complex OCR and efficient pipelines for processing, indexing and serving data, The 3TC provides a complete service in digitising historical archives and access to clean token-ready text.

The 3TC focuses on helping memory institutions create digital assets from archived historical newspapers; AI companies that need large amounts of high-quality human-written text; and Academics who need access to specific socio-cultural information from across the 19th century.

At The 3TC, the future of AI is history.