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Ronen Eldan
Microsoft Research; 'TinyStories' author; mathematician
Microsoft Research mathematician; co-author of 'TinyStories' (2023), which showed that small language models trained on synthetic children's stories can produce coherent text, reframing what 'small' models can do.
current Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Strategy positions
AI skepticmixed
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgues much of LLM behaviour can be replicated with much smaller, narrower models when training data is carefully curated; rejects the idea that scale is necessary.
TinyStories shows that small models can produce coherent, grammatical, and creative text when trained on a constrained synthetic corpus. The dependency on scale is more about diversity of training distribution than fundamental capability.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.