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text-davinci-003

2022-11-282024-01-04 · lived 1 year, 1 month

For a few months it was simply what people meant when they said "the API": a prompt went in, a completion came out, and there was no system message, no role and no conversation to manage. It taught a generation of developers what a prompt was, and then ChatGPT launched two days after it and took the room.

It kept writing until it ran out of tokens, whether or not it had finished the thought.

Provider
OpenAI
Cause of death
Superseded
Notice given
2023-07-06
Cost per Mtok
$20.00 in · $20.00 out
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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