# babbage-002

> A base model in the old sense: no roles, no chat, just the most likely continuation of whatever you typed. OpenAI named four replacements for the retiring GPT-3 base models in July 2023 and shipped two of them; this was the small one. It goes on 28 September, and the completions endpoint goes with it.

2023-08-22 — still running · lived 3 years · plot reserved

This URL is the guided walk — the 3D cemetery, standing at this grave. The written record is at [babbage-002's epitaph](https://models.rip/babbage-002/epitaph).

## Elsewhere

- [The whole cemetery](https://models.rip/)
- [The dataset](https://models.rip/graveyard.json)