Codex
code-davinci-002
2021-08-10 — 2024-01-04 · 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- Withdrawn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.