OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k

OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k, released on May 27, 2023, demonstrates a strong overall performance profile, particularly excelling in operational efficiency. This model consistently ranks among the fastest available, achieving the 98th percentile in speed across benchmarks. It also offers competitive pricing, positioned at the 57th percentile. A standout feature is its exceptional reliability, boasting a perfect 100th percentile, indicating minimal technical failures and consistent response delivery. The model incorporates significant improvements, including enhanced instruction following, JSON mode, reproducible outputs, and parallel function calling, alongside a fix for non-English language function call encoding issues. While its Reasoning (Baseline) benchmark shows 48.0% accuracy (34th percentile), suggesting room for improvement in complex multi-step reasoning tasks, its high speed and reliability make it a robust choice for applications prioritizing consistent and rapid output generation. Its training data extends up to September 2021.