Tiktoken

What is Tiktoken?

Tiktoken is a fast BPE (Byte Pair Encoding) tokenizer used by OpenAI's models. It is optimized for performance and specifically designed to handle the tokenization needs of GPT models.

Where did the term "Tiktoken" come from?

Created by OpenAI for use with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.

How is "Tiktoken" used today?

The standard tokenizer for OpenAI API users and researchers working with GPT models.

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