gpt2 medium

Name: gpt2 medium
Author: OpenAI

by OpenAI

Open WeightModel weights are publicly available — can be downloaded and self-hosted

Released March 20221K context≈ 768 words0.4B params

A compact, foundational text generator that completes whatever you start — sometimes coherently, sometimes wandering. Trained purely to predict the next token, it has no instruction-following instincts and no concept of 'answering' a question. Think of it as a raw language engine: useful for understanding how transformers work, but it will happily drift off-topic mid-sentence.

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Creative Writing

Moderate

Instruction Following

gpt2 medium

by OpenAI

Open WeightModel weights are publicly available — can be downloaded and self-hosted

Released March 20221K context≈ 768 words0.4B params

A compact, foundational text generator that completes whatever you start — sometimes coherently, sometimes wandering. Trained purely to predict the next token, it has no instruction-following instincts and no concept of 'answering' a question. Think of it as a raw language engine: useful for understanding how transformers work, but it will happily drift off-topic mid-sentence.

Capabilities

Capability scores are AI-generated based on model documentation, benchmarks, and technical specifications. Learn more

Creative Writing

Moderate

Instruction Following

Glossary

DriftA persistent bias between training and inference engines that accumulates with each training step.Instruction-FollowingThe ability of a model to understand and execute specific tasks or commands given in natural language prompts.TokenA small unit of text (a word, subword, or punctuation mark) that a language model breaks input into for processing.

gpt2 medium

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gpt2 medium

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