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text-embedding-3-small model retirement
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Calls to the model text-embedding-3-small on Azure AI Foundry stop working on February 9, 2028.
In Azure AI Foundry's words
Model: text-embedding-3-small; Version: 1; Lifecycle: GA; Retirement date: 2028-02-09; Replacement: —
Facts
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- Azure AI Foundry
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text-embedding-3-small- Released
- January 25, 2024 (models.dev)
- Kind
- Model retirement
- Takes effect
- February 9, 2028
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- Deprecations page
- Last updated
- Verified
- , against Azure AI Foundry's own pages
Questions
When does text-embedding-3-small shut down?
Calls to the model text-embedding-3-small on Azure AI Foundry stop working on February 9, 2028.
What happens to calls after February 9, 2028?
They fail from that day.
When was text-embedding-3-small released?
text-embedding-3-small was released on January 25, 2024, according to models.dev.
How do I find the calls this hits in my code?
Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.
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