# davinci-002

> The larger of the two base models OpenAI shipped in August 2023, and the last thing to carry the davinci name — which had once meant the best model OpenAI had, from a time when the best model OpenAI had could only continue a sentence. It was sold as something to fine-tune rather than something to talk to. On 28 September the name leaves the API for good.

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

## The record

- Provider: OpenAI
- Model id: `davinci-002`
- Cause of death: Retired
- Funeral: 2026-09-28

## Sources

- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230823/https://openai.com/blog/gpt-3-5-turbo-fine-tuning-and-api-updates

## Elsewhere

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