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+**Status:** Archive (code is provided as-is, no updates expected)
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 # gpt-2
 
 Code from the paper ["Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners"](https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/language-models.pdf).