March 1, 2023
GPT-3.5 Turbo API released
OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models. released the GPTGenerative Pre-trained Transformer — OpenAI's family of large language models from GPT-1 through GPT-5.-3.5 Turbo APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service. on March 1, 2023 — a faster, cheaper model that powered ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users. and thousands of production apps.
What it was for
GPTGenerative Pre-trained Transformer — OpenAI's family of large language models from GPT-1 through GPT-5.-3.5 Turbo cut APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service. costs dramatically while improving instruction-following over base GPTGenerative Pre-trained Transformer — OpenAI's family of large language models from GPT-1 through GPT-5.-3. It became the default model for early copilots, chatbots, and RAG pipelines before GPTGenerative Pre-trained Transformer — OpenAI's family of large language models from GPT-1 through GPT-5.-4 pricing dropped — democratizing LLMLarge language model — a neural network trained on vast text to generate and reason about language. features in SaaSSoftware as a Service — applications delivered over the internet on a subscription basis. products.
Companies
- OpenAI
Why it's here
GPTGenerative Pre-trained Transformer — OpenAI's family of large language models from GPT-1 through GPT-5.-3.5 Turbo made LLMLarge language model — a neural network trained on vast text to generate and reason about language. APIs affordable enough for mainstream SaaSSoftware as a Service — applications delivered over the internet on a subscription basis. features.
Why it mattered
Cost per token dropped enough that startups could ship AI features profitably.
What it solved
GPTGenerative Pre-trained Transformer — OpenAI's family of large language models from GPT-1 through GPT-5.-4 was too expensive for high-volume chat; GPTGenerative Pre-trained Transformer — OpenAI's family of large language models from GPT-1 through GPT-5.-3 was too weak for production.
Media
- ImageOpenAI
OpenAI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Related
- OpenAI GPT-3 API announcedJune 11, 2020
- GPT-4 releasedMarch 14, 2023
- ChatGPT launchedNovember 30, 2022