Obituaries · OpenAI

text-babbage-001, ?–2024

OpenAI model switched off

text-babbage-001, an OpenAI model that answered questions, wrote emails and was blamed for both, was switched off on January 4, 2024. Requests addressed to it are expected to come back unanswered.

Its work passes to gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which the family describes as 'recommended'.

Model ID	`text-babbage-001`
Provider	OpenAI deprecations page
Shut down	January 4, 2024
Successor	`gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct`

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