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

Released in 2018, Gym Retro is a platform for reinforcement knowing (RL) research study on computer game [147] using RL algorithms and study generalization. Prior RL research study focused mainly on enhancing representatives to fix single jobs. Gym Retro gives the ability to generalize in between video games with comparable concepts however various appearances.

RoboSumo

Released in 2017, RoboSumo is a virtual world where humanoid metalearning robot representatives initially do not have understanding of how to even stroll, but are offered the objectives of learning to move and to push the opposing representative out of the ring. [148] Through this adversarial knowing procedure, the representatives find out how to adjust to changing conditions. When a representative is then gotten rid of from this virtual environment and positioned in a brand-new virtual environment with high winds, the representative braces to remain upright, recommending it had actually discovered how to balance in a generalized way. [148] [149] OpenAI's Igor Mordatch argued that competitors between agents might develop an intelligence "arms race" that might increase a representative's capability to operate even outside the context of the competitors. [148]
OpenAI 5

OpenAI Five is a group of 5 OpenAI-curated bots utilized in the competitive five-on-five computer game Dota 2, that discover to play against human gamers at a high ability level entirely through trial-and-error algorithms. Before ending up being a team of 5, the first public demonstration occurred at The International 2017, the yearly 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 learned by playing against itself for 2 weeks of genuine time, which the learning software application was an action in the direction of developing software application that can deal with complicated jobs like a cosmetic surgeon. [152] [153] The system uses a form of support learning, as the bots discover with time by playing against themselves numerous times a day for months, and are rewarded for actions such as killing an enemy and taking map objectives. [154] [155] [156]
By June 2018, the ability of the bots broadened to play together as a full group of 5, and they had the ability to beat groups of amateur and semi-professional gamers. [157] [154] [158] [159] At The International 2018, OpenAI Five played in 2 exhibit matches against expert players, however wound up losing both games. [160] [161] [162] In April 2019, OpenAI Five defeated OG, the reigning world champions of the game at the time, 2:0 in a live exhibit match in San Francisco. [163] [164] The bots' last public appearance came later that month, where they played in 42,729 total video games in a four-day open online competition, winning 99.4% of those games. [165]
OpenAI 5's mechanisms in Dota 2's bot player reveals the challenges of AI systems in multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video games and how OpenAI Five has shown the use of deep reinforcement knowing (DRL) representatives to attain superhuman competence in Dota 2 matches. [166]
Dactyl

Developed in 2018, Dactyl uses maker discovering to train a Shadow Hand, a human-like robotic hand, to manipulate physical items. [167] It finds out entirely in simulation using the exact same RL algorithms and training code as OpenAI Five. OpenAI took on the things orientation issue by utilizing domain randomization, a simulation method which exposes the learner to a range of experiences rather than attempting to fit to truth. The set-up for Dactyl, aside from having movement tracking cams, also has RGB video cameras to enable the robot to control an approximate object by seeing it. In 2018, OpenAI showed that the system was able to control a cube and an octagonal prism. [168]
In 2019, OpenAI showed that Dactyl might fix a Rubik's Cube. The robot was able to fix the puzzle 60% of the time. Objects like the Rubik's Cube present complex physics that is harder to model. OpenAI did this by enhancing the toughness of Dactyl to perturbations by utilizing Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR), a simulation method of producing progressively harder environments. ADR differs from manual domain randomization by not needing a human to define randomization ranges. [169]
API

In June 2020, OpenAI announced a multi-purpose API which it said was "for accessing new AI models developed by OpenAI" to let developers call on it for "any English language AI task". [170] [171]
Text generation

The company has actually popularized generative pretrained transformers (GPT). [172]
OpenAI's original GPT design ("GPT-1")

The initial paper on generative pre-training of a transformer-based language design was written by Alec Radford and his colleagues, and published in preprint on OpenAI's site on June 11, 2018. [173] It demonstrated how a generative design of language could obtain world knowledge and procedure long-range dependences by pre-training on a diverse corpus with long stretches of adjoining text.

GPT-2

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 ("GPT-2") is a without supervision transformer language design and the follower to OpenAI's initial GPT model ("GPT-1"). GPT-2 was revealed in February 2019, with just minimal demonstrative variations initially launched to the public. The full version of GPT-2 was not right away launched due to concern about prospective misuse, including applications for composing phony news. [174] Some experts expressed uncertainty that GPT-2 postured a significant danger.

In action to GPT-2, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence reacted with a tool to detect "neural fake news". [175] Other scientists, such as Jeremy Howard, cautioned of "the innovation to completely fill Twitter, email, and the web up with reasonable-sounding, context-appropriate prose, which would muffle all other speech and be difficult to filter". [176] In November 2019, OpenAI released the total variation of the GPT-2 language model. [177] Several websites host interactive presentations of different instances of GPT-2 and other transformer models. [178] [179] [180]
GPT-2's authors argue unsupervised language designs to be general-purpose learners, shown by GPT-2 attaining advanced precision and perplexity on 7 of 8 zero-shot jobs (i.e. the model was not further trained on any task-specific input-output examples).

The corpus it was trained on, called WebText, contains somewhat 40 gigabytes of text from URLs shared in Reddit submissions with at least 3 upvotes. It prevents certain problems encoding vocabulary with word tokens by using byte pair encoding. This permits representing any string of characters by encoding both private characters and multiple-character tokens. [181]
GPT-3

First explained in May 2020, Generative Pre-trained [a] Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an unsupervised transformer language design and the follower to GPT-2. [182] [183] [184] OpenAI stated that the full version of GPT-3 contained 175 billion parameters, [184] two orders of magnitude bigger than the 1.5 billion [185] in the complete variation of GPT-2 (although GPT-3 designs with as few as 125 million criteria were likewise trained). [186]
OpenAI stated that GPT-3 prospered at certain "meta-learning" jobs 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 in between English and Romanian, and between English and German. [184]
GPT-3 significantly improved benchmark results over GPT-2. OpenAI warned that such scaling-up of language designs could be approaching or encountering the essential capability constraints of predictive language designs. [187] Pre-training GPT-3 needed several thousand setiathome.berkeley.edu petaflop/s-days [b] of compute, compared to 10s of petaflop/s-days for the full GPT-2 model. [184] Like its predecessor, [174] the GPT-3 trained model was not immediately launched to the general public for concerns of possible abuse, although OpenAI prepared to permit gain access to through a paid cloud API after a two-month totally free personal beta that started in June 2020. [170] [189]
On September 23, 2020, GPT-3 was certified exclusively to Microsoft. [190] [191]
Codex

Announced in mid-2021, Codex is a descendant of GPT-3 that has actually additionally 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 develop working code in over a lots shows languages, many effectively in Python. [192]
Several concerns with problems, style defects and security vulnerabilities were cited. [195] [196]
GitHub Copilot has actually been implicated of producing copyrighted code, without any author attribution or license. [197]
OpenAI announced that they would stop support for Codex API on March 23, 2023. [198]
GPT-4

On March 14, 2023, OpenAI revealed the release of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4), efficient in accepting text or image inputs. [199] They announced that the updated technology passed a simulated law school bar exam with a score around the leading 10% of test takers. (By contrast, GPT-3.5 scored around the bottom 10%.) They said that GPT-4 could likewise check out, evaluate or produce approximately 25,000 words of text, and compose code in all major programs languages. [200]
Observers reported that the iteration of ChatGPT using GPT-4 was an enhancement on the previous GPT-3.5-based version, with the caution that GPT-4 retained some of the issues with earlier revisions. [201] GPT-4 is likewise efficient in taking images as input on ChatGPT. [202] OpenAI has declined to reveal various technical details and statistics about GPT-4, such as the accurate size of the design. [203]
GPT-4o

On May 13, 2024, OpenAI revealed and released GPT-4o, which can process and produce text, images and audio. [204] GPT-4o attained state-of-the-art outcomes in voice, multilingual, and vision benchmarks, setting new records in audio speech acknowledgment and translation. [205] [206] It scored 88.7% on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) criteria compared to 86.5% by GPT-4. [207]
On July 18, 2024, OpenAI launched GPT-4o mini, a smaller 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 particularly helpful for enterprises, startups and developers seeking to automate services with AI agents. [208]
o1

On September 12, 2024, OpenAI released the o1-preview and o1-mini designs, which have been created to take more time to think of their reactions, causing greater accuracy. These designs are especially reliable in science, coding, and thinking tasks, and were made available to ChatGPT Plus and Team members. [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 design. OpenAI likewise revealed o3-mini, a lighter and faster version of OpenAI o3. Since December 21, 2024, this model is not available for public usage. According to OpenAI, they are testing o3 and o3-mini. [212] [213] Until January 10, 2025, security and security scientists had the opportunity to obtain early access to these designs. [214] The design is called o3 instead of o2 to prevent confusion with telecommunications providers O2. [215]
Deep research study

Deep research study is a representative developed by OpenAI, revealed on February 2, 2025. It leverages the abilities of OpenAI's o3 model to perform extensive web surfing, information analysis, and synthesis, providing detailed reports within a timeframe of 5 to 30 minutes. [216] With searching and Python tools made it possible for, it reached an accuracy of 26.6 percent on HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) standard. [120]
Image classification

CLIP

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

DALL-E

Revealed in 2021, DALL-E is a Transformer model that produces images from textual descriptions. [218] DALL-E uses a 12-billion-parameter variation of GPT-3 to interpret natural language inputs (such as "a green leather handbag shaped like a pentagon" or "an isometric view of a sad capybara") and create corresponding images. It can produce pictures of realistic things ("a stained-glass window with a picture of a blue strawberry") along with objects that do not exist in reality ("a cube with the texture of a porcupine"). Since March 2021, no API or code is available.

DALL-E 2

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

In September 2023, OpenAI announced DALL-E 3, a more effective model much better able to produce images from complicated descriptions without manual prompt engineering and render complex details like hands and text. [221] It was launched 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 brief detailed triggers [223] in addition to extend existing videos forwards or backwards in time. [224] It can create videos with resolution approximately 1920x1080 or 1080x1920. The optimum length of produced videos is unidentified.

Sora's development team named it after the Japanese word for "sky", to symbolize its "unlimited imaginative capacity". [223] Sora's technology is an adjustment of the innovation behind the DALL · E 3 text-to-image model. [225] OpenAI trained the system utilizing publicly-available videos as well as copyrighted videos accredited for that purpose, however did not expose the number or the precise sources of the videos. [223]
OpenAI demonstrated some Sora-created high-definition videos to the general public on February 15, 2024, specifying that it might produce videos as much as one minute long. It also shared a technical report highlighting the methods utilized to train the model, and the model's abilities. [225] It acknowledged some of its drawbacks, consisting of battles replicating complicated physics. [226] Will Douglas Heaven of the MIT Technology Review called the demonstration videos "impressive", but noted that they need to have been cherry-picked and may not represent Sora's typical output. [225]
Despite uncertainty from some scholastic leaders following Sora's public demonstration, significant entertainment-industry figures have revealed significant interest in the innovation's potential. In an interview, actor/filmmaker Tyler Perry revealed his astonishment at the technology's ability to generate sensible video from text descriptions, citing its possible to reinvent storytelling and material development. He said that his excitement about Sora's possibilities was so strong that he had actually 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 recognition design. [228] It is trained on a big dataset of diverse audio and is likewise 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, is a deep neural net trained to predict subsequent musical notes in MIDI music files. It can generate tunes with 10 instruments in 15 styles. According to The Verge, a tune created by MuseNet tends to begin fairly however then fall into mayhem the longer it plays. [230] [231] In pop culture, preliminary applications of this tool were used as early as 2020 for the web mental thriller Ben Drowned to produce music for the titular character. [232] [233]
Jukebox

Released in 2020, Jukebox is an open-sourced algorithm to produce music with vocals. After training on 1.2 million samples, the system accepts a category, artist, and a snippet of lyrics and outputs song samples. OpenAI stated the songs "reveal local musical coherence [and] follow standard chord patterns" but acknowledged that the tunes do not have "familiar bigger musical structures such as choruses that repeat" which "there is a substantial gap" in between Jukebox and human-generated music. The Verge specified "It's technically excellent, even if the outcomes seem like mushy versions of songs that may feel familiar", while Business Insider stated "surprisingly, some of the resulting songs are memorable and sound genuine". [234] [235] [236]
Interface

Debate Game

In 2018, OpenAI released the Debate Game, which teaches devices to dispute toy issues in front of a human judge. The purpose is to research whether such an approach may assist in auditing AI decisions and in establishing explainable AI. [237] [238]
Microscope

Released in 2020, Microscope [239] is a collection of visualizations of every considerable layer and nerve cell of eight neural network models which are often studied in interpretability. [240] Microscope was produced to analyze the features that form inside these neural networks quickly. The designs consisted of are AlexNet, VGG-19, various versions of Inception, and different variations of CLIP Resnet. [241]
ChatGPT

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is a synthetic intelligence tool constructed on top of GPT-3 that provides a conversational user interface that permits users to ask concerns in natural language. The system then responds with a response within seconds.