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Act II · Scaling up

Closed modelGitHub / OpenAI

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Built on the Codex code model, it autocompletes whole blocks of code in the editor.

Why it matters

One of the first large-model products used daily at scale, proving the value of AI-written code.

Costs and controversy

Licensing and copyright questions over its training data led to a lawsuit.

Built on

GPT-3

Led to

Claude Code

Source: github.blog ↗

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