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GPT 3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
by OpenAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDAPIPAID
RANKED #253 OF 271 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #394 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 5.0 · 485 VOICES
GPT-3.5 Turbo is OpenAI's fastest model. It can understand and generate natural language or code, and is optimized for chat and traditional completion tasks. Training data up to Sep 2021.
HAPPY6.8
47 mentions
SAD8.2
74 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 81 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. OpenAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
GPT 3.5 Turbo (older v0613) is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
Mistral SmallWHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People generally like GPT 3.5 Turbo (older v0613), with some gripes. Biggest praise: help with code. Biggest gripe: getting facts right.
398 POSTS · 87 COMMENTS · STACK OVERFLOW · DEV FORUMS · GITHUB · REDDIT · X · DEV.TO · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (4 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Sometimes makes things up (3 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2024-07-18 · 392 UPVOTESGPT-4o-mini is 2 times cheaper than GPT 3.5 Turbo
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- REDDIT · 2023-09-24 · 229 UPVOTESAutoExpert v3 (Custom Instructions), by @spdustin
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- HACKER NEWS · 2023-08-31 · 208 UPVOTESFine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for natural language to SQL
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- REDDIT · 2023-12-20 · 179 UPVOTESAfter testing the GPT API, now I know why GPT-4 on the user end is so lazy
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- REDDIT · 2024-02-10 · 152 UPVOTESGoogle develops LLM that can play Grandmaster-level chess without search
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- REDDIT · 2024-02-03 · 126 UPVOTESChatbot Arena's Updated! GPT-4-Turbo (New and Old Versions) and Bard (Gemini Pro) in Their Own Tier Still
Chatbot Arena's Updated! GPT-4-Turbo (New and Old Versions) and Bard (Gemini Pro) in Their Own Tier Still
- REDDIT · 2023-08-22 · 108 UPVOTESGPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning now available, coming to GPT-4 in the fall!
GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning now available, coming to GPT-4 in the fall!
- REDDIT · 2026-03-26 · 88 UPVOTES"Car Wash Test" debate: 6 OpenAI models from GPT-3.5 Turbo to GPT-5.4, debated the test. One still chose to walk.
"Car Wash Test" debate: 6 OpenAI models from GPT-3.5 Turbo to GPT-5.4, debated the test. One still chose to walk.
- REDDIT · 2024-02-27 · 77 UPVOTESSingularity Leapfrog 🤯 - LPUs + OpenAI 100x Computational Paradigm Shift for AI
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