# 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

## Last words

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

## The record

- Provider: OpenAI
- Model id: `text-davinci-003`
- Cause of death: Superseded
- Notice given: 2023-07-06
- Cost per Mtok: $20 in · $20 out
- Succeeded by: [GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct](https://models.rip/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct/epitaph) (this archive's reading of lineage, not the provider's migration guidance)

## Sources

- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3

## Elsewhere

- [Stand at this grave](https://models.rip/text-davinci-003)
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