University of Sydney
Harvard University
Jakob UszkoreitResearcher
Project Prometheus
Founding Advisor
via Project Prometheus
Researcher
Stephen Merity
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Founding Member of Technical Staff at Project Prometheus
Merity co-created WikiText, a widely used dataset for testing language models, and AWD-LSTM, a carefully regularized recurrent model that set strong results without enormous computing budgets. His work made rigorous language-model comparisons easier and showed the value of strong, reproducible baselines.
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Background
Current role
Founding Member of Technical Staff October 2025-presentProject Prometheus
Project PrometheusPreviously
2023-2025Researcher, 
Midjourney
MidjourneyResearch Scientist, Salesforce Research
Researcher and Emeritus Member, Common Crawl
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Last editorial review: August 8, 2026