LLM Reference

text-babbage

Deprecated

About

The text-babbage-001 model is part of the GPT-3 family, distinguished by its speed and cost-effectiveness relative to more advanced variants like text-davinci-003. It is particularly adept at straightforward tasks such as semantic search and simple classification, though its abilities are less comprehensive than those of larger models. Despite initially being a base model, enhancements for instruction-based tasks have refined its performance. Although OpenAI hasn't detailed the model's parameter count, it is estimated to have 1.3 billion parameters. With a token window of 2049 tokens, it balances performance and efficiency, sitting in the middle range of GPT-3 models.

Capabilities

MultimodalFunction CallingTool UseJSON Mode

API Versions

text-babbage-001

Specifications

Released2020-06-01
Parameters1.3B
Context2K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2019-10
Specializationgeneral