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GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

by OpenAIReleased 28 September 2023

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct takes a plain instruction as text and writes text back, keeping about 4 pages in mind. It is the GPT-3.5 Turbo version tuned for single instructions with the chat features left out, so it fits one-shot requests rather than conversation. Its knowledge stops in September 2021.

TakesText
GivesText

Reads about 4 pages · writes up to 3,6 pages

Parameters you can send

Standard OpenAI fields, grouped by what they control. Anything not listed is accepted and ignored.

Shaping the reply

How long, how varied, where to stop.

max_tokenstemperaturetop_pstopseedfrequency_penaltypresence_penaltylogit_biaslogprobstop_logprobs

Structured output

Get JSON you can parse instead of prose.

response_formatstructured_outputs

Questions about GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

  • Is GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct still on sale?

    No. OpenAI has retired it. Other OpenAI models are on sale.

  • What is GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct best for?

    GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct takes a plain instruction as text and writes text back, keeping about 4 pages in mind. It is the GPT-3.5 Turbo version tuned for single instructions with the chat features left out, so it fits one-shot requests rather than conversation. Its knowledge stops in September 2021.

  • Does GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct work in Arabic, French or Darja?

    OpenAI names no languages for GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct. Arabic, French and Darja: not stated.

  • Can it read PDFs, images or a whole book?

    It reads text. Up to 4K tokens in one request, about 4 pages. It writes up to 3 000 words at once.

  • Is GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct open source?

    No. OpenAI has not published its weights.

  • Who makes GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct, and when was it released?

    OpenAI. Released 28 September 2023. It knows the world up to 30 September 2021.

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