Whisper Large v3 Turbo

OpenAI · 2024 · Speech Recognition · USA

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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: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Sam Altman (CEO), Greg Brockman (President), Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Speech Recognition
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, MIT)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: OpenAI's Whisper large-v3-turbo speech recognition and translation model: a pruned and fine-tuned Whisper large-v3 with 4 decoder layers instead of 32, which makes it much faster at the cost of a minor drop in quality.
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 Speech Recognition from OpenAI, released 2024.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Whisper Large v3 Turbo.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/whisper-large-v3-turbo.html