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code-davinci-002

2021-08-102024-01-04 · lived 2 years, 4 months

The model that turned an English comment into a working function, and the engine underneath the first version of GitHub Copilot. It was given three days' notice; researchers who had pinned their baselines to it lost their control group overnight, access was extended for research use, and the endpoint was finally closed on 4 January 2024. The name came back in 2025 for something else entirely.

Given a function, it would write the next one, and the one after that, until you stopped it.

Provider
OpenAI
Cause of death
Withdrawn
Notice given
2023-03-20
Succeeded by
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

“Succeeded by” is this site’s reading of model lineage, not the provider’s official migration guidance.

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