byte-gardener/tinystories-26m

Overview

A 26-million-parameter model trained only on short children's stories. Useful for teaching.

byte-gardener/tinystories-26m is a 26M-parameter text generation model, published in safetensors under the mit license.

Intended use

• Text generation in en.
• Research, prototypes and products that keep a person in the loop.
• Fine-tuning as a starting point for a narrower task.

How to use

# Command-line client (planned; the shape may change)
pace pull byte-gardener/tinystories-26m

# Python (planned)
from openpace import load
model = load("byte-gardener/tinystories-26m")

Limitations

• It can state wrong things fluently. Check facts that matter.
• Quality drops on languages and domains that were thin in its training data.
• It reflects biases present in public text.

License

Released under mit. Read the license file before using the weights commercially.