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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.

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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

  1. Deprecations | OpenAI API (read 16 October 2026)
  2. InstructGPT Model Card (read 16 October 2026)

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