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text-davinci-001
text-davinci-001 is an AI model made by OpenAI. It is retired. OpenAI retired it on 4 January 2024. It takes text and returns text.
- Released
- Not confirmed: The model card dates the InstructGPT family to January 2022, but the maker's pages do not state a first-availability date specifically for text-davinci-001.
- Status
- Retired — developers.openai.com, read 16 October 2026
- Retired
- 4 January 2024 — developers.openai.com, read 16 October 2026
- Takes
- Text — github.com, read 16 October 2026
- Returns
- Text — github.com, read 16 October 2026
- Open weights
- Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not state whether text-davinci-001's weights are open.
- Licence
- Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not name a licence for text-davinci-001.
- Context window
- Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not print a context-window figure for text-davinci-001.
- Longest answer
- Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not print a standard maximum-output-token limit for text-davinci-001.
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not state a knowledge cutoff for text-davinci-001.
- API price, input
- Not confirmed: The deprecations page lists a historical deprecated-model price, but the maker's pricing page does not provide a standard-tier input price for this retired model.
- API price, output
- Not confirmed: The deprecations page lists a historical deprecated-model price, but the maker's pricing page does not provide a standard-tier output price for this retired model.
- Where
- API — github.com, read 16 October 2026
- Parameters
- Not confirmed: The InstructGPT model card lists parameter counts for family sizes but does not identify a parameter count for text-davinci-001 specifically.
- Model card
- https://github.com/openai/following-instructions-human-feedback/blob/main/model-card.md — github.com, read 16 October 2026
Questions
Is text-davinci-001 still available?
No: OpenAI retired text-davinci-001 on 4 January 2024.
What does text-davinci-001 take and return?
text-davinci-001 takes text and returns text.
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Sources
- Deprecations | OpenAI API (read 16 October 2026)
- InstructGPT Model Card (read 16 October 2026)