OpenAI Codex

text-to-code
paid
OpenAI Codex (2021) is a code generation AI derived from GPT-3 and fine-tuned on public code repositories. It can interp...
Version: 1.0
Released: 4y 2m 22d ago on 08/10/2021

Architecture

  • parameters: GPT-3 scale (~175B) decoder-only Transformer
  • context_length: 2048 tokens
  • training_data: 159 GB of Python code from 54M GitHub repos
  • inference: Autoregressive Transformer

Capabilities

  • Generates code from natural language prompts
  • Supports multiple programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, etc.)
  • Can complete, explain, and debug code snippets

Benchmarks

  • Pass@1: ~70% correct on coding tasks (if tested 100x per prompt)

Safety

  • Trained to refuse malicious code generation
  • detects malware/exploit requests and declines.

Deployment

  • regions: global
  • hosting: OpenAI servers
  • integrations: GitHub Copilot, IDE extensions

Tags

code generationprogrammingGPT-3developer tools

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