Announced in 2016, Gym is an open-source Python library developed to facilitate the advancement of reinforcement learning algorithms. It aimed to standardize how environments are defined in AI research, making released research more quickly reproducible [24] [144] while providing users with an easy user interface for connecting 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 support learning (RL) research study on computer game [147] using RL algorithms and research study generalization. Prior RL research study focused mainly on optimizing agents to resolve single jobs. Gym Retro gives the ability to generalize in between video games with similar ideas however various appearances.

RoboSumo

Released in 2017, RoboSumo is a virtual world where humanoid metalearning robot representatives at first do not have knowledge of how to even walk, however are given the objectives of discovering to move and to push the opposing agent out of the ring. [148] Through this adversarial knowing process, the agents learn how to adjust to changing conditions. When a representative is then eliminated from this virtual environment and placed in a brand-new virtual environment with high winds, the representative braces to remain upright, suggesting it had actually discovered how to balance in a generalized way. [148] [149] OpenAI’s Igor Mordatch argued that competitors between representatives could produce an intelligence “arms race” that might increase an agent’s ability to function even outside the context of the competitors. [148]
OpenAI 5

OpenAI Five is a group of five OpenAI-curated bots utilized in the competitive five-on-five video game Dota 2, that learn to play against human players at a high ability level completely through experimental algorithms. Before ending up being a team of 5, the first public demonstration happened at The International 2017, the yearly best champion competition for the game, where Dendi, a professional Ukrainian gamer, lost against a bot in a live one-on-one match. [150] [151] After the match, CTO Greg Brockman explained that the bot had found out by playing against itself for two weeks of actual time, and that the application was an action in the instructions of developing software that can handle complicated tasks like a cosmetic surgeon. [152] [153] The system utilizes a type of reinforcement learning, as the bots learn 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 defeat groups of amateur and semi-professional gamers. [157] [154] [158] [159] At The International 2018, OpenAI Five played in 2 exhibit matches against expert gamers, but wound up losing both games. [160] [161] [162] In April 2019, OpenAI Five defeated OG, the reigning world champions of the video game at the time, 2:0 in a live exhibition match in San Francisco. [163] [164] The bots’ last public appearance came later on that month, where they played in 42,729 overall games in a four-day open online competition, winning 99.4% of those games. [165]
OpenAI 5’s systems in Dota 2’s bot player reveals the obstacles of AI systems in multiplayer online fight arena (MOBA) games and how OpenAI Five has shown using deep support knowing (DRL) representatives to attain superhuman skills in Dota 2 matches. [166]
Dactyl

Developed in 2018, Dactyl utilizes maker discovering to train a Shadow Hand, a human-like robotic hand, to control physical objects. [167] It learns entirely in simulation utilizing the very same RL algorithms and training code as OpenAI Five. OpenAI tackled the object orientation problem by using domain randomization, a simulation approach which exposes the learner to a variety of experiences instead of attempting to fit to truth. The set-up for Dactyl, aside from having motion tracking cameras, likewise has RGB cameras to enable the robotic to control an arbitrary item by seeing it. In 2018, OpenAI revealed that the system was able to control a cube and an octagonal prism. [168]
In 2019, OpenAI demonstrated that Dactyl could resolve a Rubik’s Cube. The robot was able to solve the puzzle 60% of the time. Objects like the Rubik’s Cube introduce complicated physics that is harder to design. OpenAI did this by improving the effectiveness of Dactyl to perturbations by using Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR), a simulation approach of generating gradually more hard environments. ADR varies from manual domain randomization by not requiring a human to specify randomization varieties. [169]
API

In June 2020, OpenAI announced a multi-purpose API which it said was “for accessing new AI designs developed by OpenAI” to let developers get in touch with it for “any English language AI task”. [170] [171]
Text generation

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

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

GPT-2

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (“GPT-2”) is a not being watched transformer language design and the successor to OpenAI’s initial GPT design (“GPT-1”). GPT-2 was announced in February 2019, with only minimal demonstrative versions initially launched to the public. The complete version of GPT-2 was not immediately released due to concern about possible abuse, including applications for writing phony news. [174] Some professionals revealed uncertainty that GPT-2 postured a substantial 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, alerted of “the innovation to absolutely fill Twitter, email, and the web up with reasonable-sounding, context-appropriate prose, which would hush all other speech and be impossible to filter”. [176] In November 2019, OpenAI launched the complete variation of the GPT-2 language design. [177] Several websites host interactive presentations of different instances of GPT-2 and other transformer models. [178] [179] [180]
GPT-2’s authors argue not being watched language models to be general-purpose students, illustrated by GPT-2 attaining modern precision and perplexity on 7 of 8 zero-shot tasks (i.e. the design was not additional trained on any task-specific input-output examples).

The corpus it was trained on, called WebText, contains slightly 40 gigabytes of text from URLs shared in Reddit submissions with at least 3 upvotes. It avoids certain problems encoding vocabulary with word tokens by utilizing byte pair encoding. This permits representing any string of characters by encoding both specific 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 model and the follower to GPT-2. [182] [183] [184] OpenAI stated that the complete version of GPT-3 contained 175 billion specifications, [184] two orders of magnitude bigger than the 1.5 billion [185] in the complete version of GPT-2 (although GPT-3 models with as couple of as 125 million specifications were likewise trained). [186]
OpenAI mentioned that GPT-3 prospered at certain “meta-learning” tasks and might generalize the purpose of a single input-output pair. The GPT-3 release paper gave examples of translation and cross-linguistic transfer knowing between English and Romanian, and between English and German. [184]
GPT-3 dramatically enhanced benchmark outcomes over GPT-2. OpenAI warned that such scaling-up of language designs might be approaching or coming across the essential ability constraints of predictive language models. [187] Pre-training GPT-3 required a number of thousand petaflop/s-days [b] of compute, compared to tens of petaflop/s-days for the complete GPT-2 design. [184] Like its predecessor, [174] the GPT-3 trained design was not instantly released to the public for issues 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 began 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 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 launched in personal beta. [194] According to OpenAI, the design can create working code in over a lots programming languages, a lot of effectively in Python. [192]
Several issues with problems, design defects and security vulnerabilities were cited. [195] [196]
GitHub Copilot has been implicated of emitting copyrighted code, without any author attribution or license. [197]
OpenAI revealed that they would terminate assistance 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 revealed that the upgraded technology passed a simulated law school bar exam 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 also read, evaluate or generate as much as 25,000 words of text, and write code in all major programming languages. [200]
Observers reported that the model of ChatGPT utilizing GPT-4 was an improvement on the previous GPT-3.5-based iteration, with the caveat that GPT-4 retained some of the problems with earlier modifications. [201] GPT-4 is also efficient in taking images as input on ChatGPT. [202] OpenAI has declined to expose numerous technical details and stats about GPT-4, such as the accurate size of the model. [203]
GPT-4o

On May 13, 2024, OpenAI revealed and released GPT-4o, which can process and produce text, images and setiathome.berkeley.edu audio. [204] GPT-4o attained state-of-the-art results in voice, multilingual, and vision benchmarks, setting brand-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 released GPT-4o mini, a smaller version of GPT-4o changing 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 expects it to be particularly beneficial for business, startups and designers looking for to automate services with AI representatives. [208]
o1

On September 12, 2024, OpenAI launched the o1-preview and o1-mini designs, which have actually been designed to take more time to think about their reactions, leading to greater precision. These models are especially efficient in science, coding, and reasoning tasks, and were made available to ChatGPT Plus and Team members. [209] [210] In December 2024, o1-preview was changed by o1. [211]
o3

On December 20, 2024, OpenAI unveiled o3, the follower of the o1 reasoning model. OpenAI also unveiled o3-mini, a lighter and quicker variation of OpenAI o3. Since December 21, 2024, this model is not available for public use. 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 models. [214] The design is called o3 rather than o2 to prevent confusion with telecoms services supplier O2. [215]
Deep research

Deep research is a representative established by OpenAI, revealed on February 2, 2025. It leverages the abilities of OpenAI’s o3 design to perform comprehensive web surfing, information analysis, and synthesis, providing detailed reports within a timeframe of 5 to thirty minutes. [216] With browsing and Python tools enabled, it reached a precision 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 design that is trained to examine the semantic similarity between text and images. It can significantly be used for image category. [217]
Text-to-image

DALL-E

Revealed in 2021, DALL-E is a Transformer model that creates images from textual descriptions. [218] DALL-E uses a 12-billion-parameter version of GPT-3 to analyze natural language inputs (such as “a green leather purse formed like a pentagon” or “an isometric view of a sad capybara”) and generate matching images. It can develop pictures of sensible objects (“a stained-glass window with an image of a blue strawberry”) in addition to things 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 updated variation of the design with more realistic outcomes. [219] In December 2022, OpenAI released on GitHub software application for Point-E, a new fundamental system for converting a text description into a 3-dimensional model. [220]
DALL-E 3

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

Sora

Sora is a text-to-video design that can generate videos based upon brief detailed prompts [223] along with extend existing videos forwards or in reverse in time. [224] It can generate videos with resolution up to 1920x1080 or 1080x1920. The optimum length of produced videos is unidentified.

Sora’s development group named it after the Japanese word for “sky”, to represent its “unlimited innovative potential”. [223] Sora’s innovation is an adjustment of the technology behind the DALL · E 3 text-to-image model. [225] OpenAI trained the system using publicly-available videos in addition to copyrighted videos licensed for that function, however did not expose 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, stating that it might produce videos as much as one minute long. It likewise shared a technical report highlighting the methods utilized to train the model, and the model’s abilities. [225] It acknowledged a few of its drawbacks, including struggles mimicing complicated physics. [226] Will Douglas Heaven of the MIT Technology Review called the presentation videos “remarkable”, however noted that they must have been cherry-picked and may not represent Sora’s normal output. [225]
Despite uncertainty from some academic leaders following Sora’s public demo, noteworthy entertainment-industry figures have revealed substantial interest in the innovation’s capacity. In an interview, actor/filmmaker Tyler Perry revealed his awe at the technology’s ability to produce sensible video from text descriptions, mentioning its prospective to revolutionize storytelling and content production. He said that his excitement about Sora’s possibilities was so strong that he had decided to pause prepare for broadening his Atlanta-based film studio. [227]
Speech-to-text

Whisper

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

MuseNet

Released in 2019, MuseNet is a deep neural net trained to predict subsequent musical notes in MIDI music files. It can create tunes with 10 instruments in 15 designs. According to The Verge, a tune generated by MuseNet tends to start fairly but then fall under chaos the longer it plays. [230] [231] In popular culture, preliminary applications of this tool were utilized as early as 2020 for the internet psychological thriller Ben Drowned to develop music for the titular character. [232] [233]
Jukebox

Released in 2020, Jukebox is an open-sourced algorithm to generate 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 mentioned the tunes “show local musical coherence [and] follow conventional chord patterns” however acknowledged that the tunes lack “familiar bigger musical structures such as choruses that duplicate” which “there is a significant gap” between Jukebox and human-generated music. The Verge specified “It’s technically remarkable, even if the outcomes seem like mushy versions of songs that might feel familiar”, while Business Insider mentioned “surprisingly, a few of the resulting songs are memorable and sound genuine”. [234] [235] [236]
Interface

Debate Game

In 2018, OpenAI introduced the Debate Game, which teaches makers to debate toy problems in front of a human judge. The function is to research whether such a technique may help in auditing AI decisions and in developing explainable AI. [237] [238]
Microscope

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

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is an expert system tool developed on top of GPT-3 that offers a conversational interface that allows users to ask concerns in natural language. The system then reacts with a response within seconds.