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Codex code-davinci-001 is a closed-weights language model from OpenAI, released August 2021. Licence: proprietary.

Catalogue identity notes

Comparison-only. First-generation OpenAI Codex API model 'code-davinci-001' (the OpenAI deprecations page lists it among the 'Codex models' shut down 2023-03-23). Release month from OpenAI's 2021-08-10 'OpenAI Codex' post (archived): 'we are releasing it through our API in private beta starting today'. Not code-davinci-002. Parameter count never published.

Model information sources

Release date ↗

32.8±1.4comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 9 benchmark results across 4 sources

Score within the LMArena (text) comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Codex code-davinci-001, out of 877 with a score, then more from OpenAI.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
758OPT-175B Meta33±1comparison only2022-05
759BLOOMZ 176B BigScience33±2comparison only2022-11
760Codex code-davinci-001 OpenAI33±1comparison only2021-08
761StarCoderBase 7B BigCode33±1local~6GB2023-07
762Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Meta33±1api $0.020/M +local~1.6GB2024-09
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1GPT-6 Astra OpenAI86±1api $20.00/M2026-09
3GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI84±1api $4.00/M2026-09
8GPT-6 Sol OpenAI81±1api $4.00/M2026-09

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$ what it's good at

math▁▂▃▆█▇▅▇▃▁▁▁ #443 of 523 * · 28% of its score · 1 test

Beats GPT-3.5 Turbo (0125), DBRX Instruct, Command R Plus (04-2024) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails OPT-1.3B, OPT-2.7B, Gemma 2B (base) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GSM8K +114.7% ✎▂▂▂▂▃▄▅▇██▆▄ beats 41/200easy · avg 69%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 28%sharp · several runs
other tests5 not in a task · 71% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
SVAMP +141.2% ✎█▆▆▅▂▅▂▅▂▂▅▃ beats 23/30easy · avg 84%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 33%sharp · at its level · several runs
AQuA-RAT +122.4% ✎█··▃▁▁··▁▁▁▁ beats 18/27medium · avg 56%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16%sharp · too hard for it · several runs
CommonsenseQA46.8% ✎█·····▂▂▃▂▄▄ beats 21/38easy · avg 87%▇▇▇▇▇ 13%sharp · at its level · small run
CoNLL-2003 English NER, few-shot in-context prompting (entity F1)61.9% ✎▃···▅·▃▅··▃█ beats 5/9easy · avg 84%▇▇ 5.2%at its level · small run
ODEX English pass@1 (zero-shot)33.6% ✎▄▄········▄█ beats 1/4medium · avg 58%▇ 3.2%blunt · at its level

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

$ how the score was worked out · Faithful Chain-of-Thought Rea… 48%, Large Language Models are Bet… 43%, CodeIE: Large Code Generation… 5% and 1 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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