An older OpenAI chat model that takes text in and returns text. Because it cannot read images or transcribe audio, it is unsuitable for vision work or vision fine-tuning.
Also called GPT-3.5 Turbo.
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Terms in this definition
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- Vision fine-tuning
Fine-tuning where the JSONL messages include images as URLs or base64. Only gpt-4o (2024-08-06) and gpt-4.1 (2025-04-14) support it, and images showing people, faces or CAPTCHAs are dropped.