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GPT-2

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Superseded by GPT-3

Specifications

Type
LLM
Access
Open weights
Released
February 14, 2019
Parameters
1.5B
Context window
1,024 tokens
Input
Text
Output
Text

Our take

Scaled up GPT to surprisingly fluent open-ended text and zero-shot task ability — notorious for OpenAI’s staged release over misuse fears.

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