Overview
Demonstrated broad task transfer from unsupervised language modeling and introduced a staged-weight release.
GPT-2
Demonstrated broad task transfer from unsupervised language modeling and introduced a staged-weight release.
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- Release date
- 2019-02-14
- Organization
- OpenAI
- Family
- GPT
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Specifications
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Overview
Why it mattered
GPT-2 brought the scale-driven emergence of general language behavior into public view—and made release governance part of the model story.
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Architecture & capabilities
Key capabilities
Text generationFew-shot learning
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Release history
OpenAI announced GPT-2 and began a staged release.
View sourceThe full 1.5B GPT-2 weights were released.
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