Whisper Large v3

OpenAI · 2023 · Speech Recognition · USA

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: 2023
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 speech recognition and translation model: the large-v2 architecture with 128 Mel frequency bins and a new Cantonese language token, trained on 1 million hours of weakly labeled and 4 million hours of pseudo-labeled audio; the card reports 10% to 20% fewer errors than large-v2 across many languages.
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 2023.

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

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