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a small language model trained on tinystories.
tale is a ~50m parameter llama-style model built from scratch, trained on apple silicon and exported to gguf for local inference.
ollama run navthings/tale
or run the gguf directly with llama.cpp:
./llama-cli -m tale-step2000-f16.gguf -p "once upon a time "
tale is an experiment, the evolution to lilstory
i built it because my little brother kept on asking me for a bedtime story
it's intentionally small.
i also ended up using tale for a research paper
early release.
the current model is trained for 2,000 steps and can generate simple tinystories-style text, but it is still very much a work in progress.
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