# text-davinci-003

> 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.

2022-11-28 — 2024-01-04 · lived 1 year, 1 month

This URL is the guided walk — the 3D cemetery, standing at this grave. The written record is at [text-davinci-003's epitaph](https://models.rip/text-davinci-003/epitaph).

## Elsewhere

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