Since yesterday evening, I’ve been encountering the error “Invalid type for ‘temperature’: expected a decimal, but got a string instead.” when trying to run a batch job on the API. My jsonl file contains items of the following format (with placeholders for id and messages): {“custom_id”: “custom_i…

Fix is deployed, this should be resolved for requests that haven’t been processed yet. If requests were already processed and failed, you’ll see them as 400s in the error file once your batch completes. You won’t be billed for failed requests. Apologies for the disruption, and thanks again for flag…

BatchAPI Error: "Invalid type for 'temperature': expected a decimal, but got a string instead."

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mec1 May 31, 2024, 8:26pm 7

Same here. Looks like a bug.

Also I want more TPD

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BatchAPI Error: "Invalid type for 'temperature': expected a decimal, but got a string instead."

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