What's the new tokenization algorithm for gpt-4o?

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After release gtp-4o, I found that it uses new tokenization algorithm. So what’s the new tokenization algorithm for gpt-4o?

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The encoding name of the talkerizer corresponding to gpt-4o seems to be “o200k_base”.

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Thanks.

I’ve found the encoding file: https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/encodings/o200k_base.tiktoken

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For those that need it, I’ve updated the OpenAI cookbook here:

And the usage function…

def num_tokens_from_messages(messages, model="gpt-3.5-turbo-0613"):
    """Return the number of tokens used by a list of messages."""
    try:
        encoding = tiktoken.encoding_for_model(model)
    except KeyError:
        print("Warning: model not found. Using cl100k_base encoding.")
        encoding = tiktoken.get_encoding("cl100k_base")
    if model in {
        "gpt-3.5-turbo-0613",
        "gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613",
        "gpt-4-0314",
        "gpt-4-32k-0314",
        "gpt-4-0613",
        "gpt-4-32k-0613",
        "gpt-4-turbo",
        "gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09",
        "gpt-4o",
        "gpt-4o-2024-05-13",
        }:
        tokens_per_message = 3
        tokens_per_name = 1
    elif model == "gpt-3.5-turbo-0301":
        tokens_per_message = 4  # every message follows <|start|>{role/name}\n{content}<|end|>\n
        tokens_per_name = -1  # if there's a name, the role is omitted
    elif "gpt-3.5-turbo" in model:
        print("Warning: gpt-3.5-turbo may update over time. Returning num tokens assuming gpt-3.5-turbo-0613.")
        return num_tokens_from_messages(messages, model="gpt-3.5-turbo-0613")
    elif "gpt-4o" in model:
        print(
            "Warning: gpt-4o may update over time. Returning num tokens assuming gpt-4o-2024-05-13.")
        return num_tokens_from_messages(messages, model="gpt-4o-2024-05-13")
    elif "gpt-4" in model:
        print("Warning: gpt-4 may update over time. Returning num tokens assuming gpt-4-0613.")
        return num_tokens_from_messages(messages, model="gpt-4-0613")
    else:
        raise NotImplementedError(
            f"""num_tokens_from_messages() is not implemented for model {model}. See https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/chatml.md for information on how messages are converted to tokens."""
        )
    num_tokens = 0
    for message in messages:
        num_tokens += tokens_per_message
        for key, value in message.items():
            num_tokens += len(encoding.encode(value))
            if key == "name":
                num_tokens += tokens_per_name
    num_tokens += 3  # every reply is primed with <|start|>assistant<|message|>
    return num_tokens
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