GPT-2
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- OpenAI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sam Altman — Independent; self-described 'politically homeless' (2025); former Democratic donor; $1M personal donation to Trump inaugural fund (2025)
- D · Date
- 2019
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Greg Brockman (President), Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist), Brad Lightcap (COO), Fidji Simo (CEO Applications), Sarah Friar (CFO), Mark Chen (SVP Research), Denise Dresser (CRO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Modified MIT)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 5/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 4.5/10 → 4.52
- R · What Makes It Special
- GPT-2, OpenAI's 1.5-billion-parameter transformer language model, trained simply to predict the next word on 40GB of internet text from 8 million web pages. Citing concerns about malicious applications, OpenAI at first released only a much smaller version with a technical paper, then larger versions in stages, ending with the full 1.5B model alongside code and weights for detecting GPT-2 output; the code and models are under a modified MIT license.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private (~$852B valuation, Mar 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @OpenAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights LLM from OpenAI, released 2019.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“GPT-2.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/gpt-2-openai.html
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