Announced in 2016, Gym is an open-source Python library created to facilitate the advancement of support learning algorithms. It aimed to standardize how environments are defined in AI research study, making released research more quickly reproducible [24] [144] while supplying users with a simple interface for engaging with these environments. In 2022, brand-new advancements of Gym have been moved to the library Gymnasium. [145] [146]
Gym Retro

Released in 2018, Gym Retro is a platform for reinforcement learning (RL) research study on video games [147] utilizing RL algorithms and research study generalization. Prior RL research study focused mainly on enhancing agents to solve single tasks. Gym Retro gives the ability to generalize between games with comparable ideas but various looks.

RoboSumo

Released in 2017, RoboSumo is a virtual world where humanoid metalearning robotic agents initially do not have knowledge of how to even stroll, but are given the objectives of learning to move and to push the opposing representative out of the ring. [148] Through this adversarial learning procedure, the representatives discover how to adapt to altering conditions. When a representative is then removed from this virtual environment and positioned in a new virtual environment with high winds, the agent braces to remain upright, recommending it had discovered how to balance in a generalized way. [148] [149] OpenAI’s Igor Mordatch argued that competition in between representatives could develop an intelligence “arms race” that might increase a representative’s capability to work even outside the context of the competition. [148]
OpenAI 5

OpenAI Five is a group of 5 OpenAI-curated bots used in the competitive five-on-five computer game Dota 2, that discover to play against human players at a high skill level totally through experimental algorithms. Before ending up being a group of 5, the very first public presentation occurred at The International 2017, the annual premiere championship tournament for the game, where Dendi, a professional Ukrainian gamer, lost against a bot in a live individually matchup. [150] [151] After the match, CTO Greg Brockman explained that the bot had actually learned by playing against itself for two weeks of genuine time, and that the knowing software application was an action in the instructions of developing software application that can manage complicated tasks like a surgeon. [152] [153] The system uses a kind of support knowing, as the bots find out over time by playing against themselves numerous times a day for months, and are rewarded for actions such as eliminating an enemy and taking map goals. [154] [155] [156]
By June 2018, the capability of the bots expanded to play together as a full group of 5, and they were able to beat teams of amateur and semi-professional gamers. [157] [154] [158] [159] At The International 2018, OpenAI Five played in 2 exhibition matches against professional gamers, however wound up losing both video games. [160] [161] [162] In April 2019, OpenAI Five beat OG, the ruling world champions of the video game at the time, 2:0 in a live exhibit match in San Francisco. [163] [164] The bots’ last public look came later that month, where they played in 42,729 overall games in a four-day open online competitors, winning 99.4% of those video games. [165]
OpenAI 5’s mechanisms in Dota 2’s bot gamer reveals the challenges of AI systems in multiplayer online fight arena (MOBA) games and how OpenAI Five has actually demonstrated making use of deep support learning (DRL) agents to attain superhuman proficiency in Dota 2 matches. [166]
Dactyl

Developed in 2018, Dactyl uses maker learning to train a Shadow Hand, a human-like robot hand, to manipulate physical things. [167] It finds out totally in simulation using the exact same RL algorithms and training code as OpenAI Five. OpenAI dealt with the item orientation issue by using domain randomization, a simulation method which exposes the learner to a range of experiences rather than trying to fit to truth. The set-up for Dactyl, aside from having movement tracking cameras, likewise has RGB electronic cameras to permit the robot to control an arbitrary things by seeing it. In 2018, OpenAI showed that the system was able to manipulate a cube and an octagonal prism. [168]
In 2019, OpenAI demonstrated that Dactyl might solve a Rubik’s Cube. The robot was able to fix the puzzle 60% of the time. Objects like the Rubik’s Cube introduce intricate physics that is harder to design. OpenAI did this by enhancing the effectiveness of Dactyl to perturbations by utilizing Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR), a simulation method of producing gradually more tough environments. ADR varies from manual domain randomization by not needing a human to specify randomization ranges. [169]
API

In June 2020, OpenAI announced a multi-purpose API which it said was “for accessing brand-new AI models established by OpenAI” to let designers contact it for “any English language AI job”. [170] [171]
Text generation

The business has actually promoted generative pretrained transformers (GPT). [172]
OpenAI’s initial GPT model (“GPT-1”)

The initial paper on generative pre-training of a transformer-based language model was written by Alec Radford and his associates, and released in preprint on OpenAI’s website on June 11, 2018. [173] It revealed how a generative model of language might obtain world knowledge and procedure long-range reliances by pre-training on a diverse corpus with long stretches of contiguous text.

GPT-2

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (“GPT-2”) is a without supervision transformer language model and the successor to OpenAI’s original GPT design (“GPT-1”). GPT-2 was revealed in February 2019, with just restricted demonstrative versions initially released to the general public. The full version of GPT-2 was not immediately launched due to concern about prospective misuse, including applications for writing fake news. [174] Some experts revealed uncertainty that GPT-2 posed a substantial hazard.

In response to GPT-2, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence responded with a tool to spot “neural phony news”. [175] Other researchers, such as Jeremy Howard, warned of “the technology to totally fill Twitter, email, and the web up with reasonable-sounding, context-appropriate prose, which would drown out all other speech and be impossible to filter”. [176] In November 2019, OpenAI launched the total version of the GPT-2 language model. [177] Several websites host interactive presentations of various instances of GPT-2 and other transformer models. [178] [179] [180]
GPT-2’s authors argue without supervision language models to be general-purpose learners, highlighted by GPT-2 attaining state-of-the-art precision and perplexity on 7 of 8 zero-shot tasks (i.e. the model was not more trained on any task-specific input-output examples).

The corpus it was trained on, called WebText, contains a little 40 gigabytes of text from URLs shared in Reddit submissions with a minimum of 3 upvotes. It avoids certain issues encoding vocabulary with word tokens by using byte pair encoding. This allows representing any string of characters by encoding both individual characters and multiple-character tokens. [181]
GPT-3

First explained in May 2020, Generative Pre-trained [a] Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a without supervision transformer language design and the follower to GPT-2. [182] [183] [184] OpenAI stated that the complete variation of GPT-3 contained 175 billion specifications, [184] 2 orders of magnitude larger than the 1.5 billion [185] in the complete variation of GPT-2 (although GPT-3 models with as few as 125 million criteria were likewise trained). [186]
OpenAI mentioned that GPT-3 prospered at certain “meta-learning” tasks and might generalize the function of a single input-output pair. The GPT-3 release paper provided examples of translation and cross-linguistic transfer knowing between English and Romanian, and between English and German. [184]
GPT-3 dramatically improved benchmark results over GPT-2. OpenAI warned that such scaling-up of language designs might be approaching or coming across the essential capability constraints of predictive language designs. [187] Pre-training GPT-3 required numerous thousand petaflop/s-days [b] of compute, compared to tens of petaflop/s-days for the full GPT-2 design. [184] Like its predecessor, [174] the GPT-3 trained model was not instantly released to the public for issues of possible abuse, although OpenAI planned to enable gain access to through a paid cloud API after a two-month complimentary personal beta that began in June 2020. [170] [189]
On September 23, 2020, GPT-3 was certified specifically to Microsoft. [190] [191]
Codex

Announced in mid-2021, Codex is a descendant of GPT-3 that has in addition been trained on code from 54 million GitHub repositories, [192] [193] and is the AI powering the code autocompletion tool GitHub Copilot. [193] In August 2021, an API was released in personal beta. [194] According to OpenAI, the model can produce working code in over a dozen shows languages, the majority of successfully in Python. [192]
Several issues with glitches, design defects and security vulnerabilities were cited. [195] [196]
GitHub Copilot has been implicated of producing copyrighted code, with no author attribution or license. [197]
OpenAI announced that they would terminate assistance for Codex API on March 23, 2023. [198]
GPT-4

On March 14, 2023, OpenAI announced the release of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4), capable of accepting text or image inputs. [199] They revealed that the upgraded innovation passed a simulated law school bar examination with a rating around the top 10% of test takers. (By contrast, GPT-3.5 scored around the bottom 10%.) They said that GPT-4 might likewise read, examine or generate approximately 25,000 words of text, and write code in all major programming languages. [200]
Observers reported that the version of ChatGPT using GPT-4 was an enhancement on the previous GPT-3.5-based model, with the caveat that GPT-4 retained some of the issues with earlier modifications. [201] GPT-4 is also capable of taking images as input on ChatGPT. [202] OpenAI has actually declined to expose numerous technical details and stats about GPT-4, such as the exact size of the model. [203]
GPT-4o

On May 13, 2024, setiathome.berkeley.edu OpenAI revealed and launched GPT-4o, which can process and generate text, images and audio. [204] GPT-4o attained cutting edge results in voice, multilingual, and vision criteria, setting brand-new records in audio speech acknowledgment and translation. [205] [206] It scored 88.7% on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark compared to 86.5% by GPT-4. [207]
On July 18, 2024, OpenAI launched GPT-4o mini, a smaller sized version of GPT-4o replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo on the ChatGPT user interface. Its API costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, compared to $5 and $15 respectively for GPT-4o. OpenAI anticipates it to be especially beneficial for enterprises, startups and designers seeking to automate services with AI representatives. [208]
o1

On September 12, 2024, OpenAI released the o1-preview and o1-mini designs, which have actually been created to take more time to think of their actions, causing higher accuracy. These designs are especially effective in science, coding, and reasoning jobs, and were made available to ChatGPT Plus and Employee. [209] [210] In December 2024, o1-preview was replaced by o1. [211]
o3

On December 20, 2024, OpenAI revealed o3, the successor of the o1 thinking model. OpenAI also unveiled o3-mini, a lighter and much faster variation of OpenAI o3. Since December 21, 2024, this design is not available for public usage. According to OpenAI, they are evaluating o3 and o3-mini. [212] [213] Until January 10, 2025, safety and security researchers had the chance to obtain early access to these designs. [214] The model is called o3 rather than o2 to avoid confusion with telecoms companies O2. [215]
Deep research

Deep research study is a representative established by OpenAI, unveiled on February 2, 2025. It leverages the abilities of OpenAI’s o3 design to carry out comprehensive web surfing, information analysis, and synthesis, delivering detailed reports within a timeframe of 5 to 30 minutes. [216] With browsing and Python tools enabled, it reached an accuracy of 26.6 percent on HLE (Humanity’s Last Exam) benchmark. [120]
Image category

CLIP

Revealed in 2021, CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) is a model that is trained to examine the semantic resemblance between text and images. It can notably be utilized for image classification. [217]
Text-to-image

DALL-E

Revealed in 2021, DALL-E is a Transformer model that produces images from textual descriptions. [218] DALL-E utilizes a 12-billion-parameter variation of GPT-3 to analyze natural language inputs (such as “a green leather bag shaped like a pentagon” or “an isometric view of a sad capybara”) and create matching images. It can develop images of realistic items (“a stained-glass window with a picture of a blue strawberry”) in addition to objects that do not exist in truth (“a cube with the texture of a porcupine”). As of March 2021, no API or code is available.

DALL-E 2

In April 2022, OpenAI revealed DALL-E 2, an upgraded variation of the design with more practical results. [219] In December 2022, OpenAI published on GitHub software for Point-E, a brand-new fundamental system for converting a text description into a 3-dimensional design. [220]
DALL-E 3

In September 2023, OpenAI revealed DALL-E 3, a more effective model better able to produce images from intricate descriptions without manual prompt engineering and render complicated details like hands and text. [221] It was released to the public as a ChatGPT Plus feature in October. [222]
Text-to-video

Sora

Sora is a text-to-video model that can generate videos based upon short detailed triggers [223] in addition to extend existing videos forwards or in reverse in time. [224] It can produce videos with resolution up to 1920x1080 or 1080x1920. The maximal length of generated videos is unidentified.

Sora’s development group named it after the Japanese word for “sky”, to represent its “unlimited imaginative capacity”. [223] Sora’s technology is an adaptation of the innovation behind the DALL · E 3 text-to-image design. [225] OpenAI trained the system using publicly-available videos in addition to copyrighted videos licensed for that purpose, however did not reveal the number or the specific sources of the videos. [223]
OpenAI demonstrated some Sora-created high-definition videos to the public on February 15, 2024, mentioning that it could create videos as much as one minute long. It likewise shared a technical report highlighting the approaches utilized to train the design, and the model’s capabilities. [225] It acknowledged a few of its shortcomings, including battles mimicing complicated physics. [226] Will Douglas Heaven of the MIT Technology Review called the presentation videos “remarkable”, but noted that they should have been cherry-picked and may not represent Sora’s normal output. [225]
Despite uncertainty from some scholastic leaders following Sora’s public demonstration, significant entertainment-industry figures have actually revealed substantial interest in the technology’s potential. In an interview, actor/filmmaker Tyler Perry expressed his astonishment at the innovation’s ability to produce sensible video from text descriptions, mentioning its potential to reinvent storytelling and content creation. He said that his excitement about Sora’s possibilities was so strong that he had decided to stop briefly prepare for broadening his Atlanta-based film studio. [227]
Speech-to-text

Whisper

Released in 2022, Whisper is a general-purpose speech acknowledgment design. [228] It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language recognition. [229]
Music generation

MuseNet

Released in 2019, MuseNet is a deep neural net trained to forecast subsequent in MIDI music files. It can create tunes with 10 instruments in 15 designs. According to The Verge, a song produced by MuseNet tends to begin fairly however then fall into turmoil the longer it plays. [230] [231] In pop culture, preliminary applications of this tool were used as early as 2020 for the internet psychological thriller Ben Drowned to create music for the titular character. [232] [233]
Jukebox

Released in 2020, Jukebox is an open-sourced algorithm to create music with vocals. After training on 1.2 million samples, the system accepts a category, artist, and a bit of lyrics and outputs tune samples. OpenAI specified the songs “reveal regional musical coherence [and] follow standard chord patterns” however acknowledged that the tunes do not have “familiar bigger musical structures such as choruses that duplicate” which “there is a considerable space” between Jukebox and human-generated music. The Verge specified “It’s technologically excellent, even if the results sound like mushy variations of songs that might feel familiar”, while Business Insider mentioned “surprisingly, a few of the resulting tunes are catchy and sound genuine”. [234] [235] [236]
User user interfaces

Debate Game

In 2018, OpenAI introduced the Debate Game, which teaches machines to discuss toy problems in front of a human judge. The purpose is to research whether such an approach might assist in auditing AI decisions and in developing explainable AI. [237] [238]
Microscope

Released in 2020, Microscope [239] is a collection of visualizations of every substantial layer and neuron of eight neural network designs which are typically studied in interpretability. [240] Microscope was created to evaluate the functions that form inside these neural networks quickly. The models consisted of are AlexNet, VGG-19, various variations of Inception, and different versions of CLIP Resnet. [241]
ChatGPT

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool constructed on top of GPT-3 that supplies a conversational user interface that enables users to ask questions in natural language. The system then responds with a response within seconds.