# deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b

Calls to the model deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b on Together AI stopped working on December 23, 2025.

## What to use instead

Move to meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Reference, recommended by Together AI.

- API: Together AI (api.together.xyz)
- Model: deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b
- Released: January 1, 2025 (models.dev)
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: December 23, 2025
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Together AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/together-ai/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b/

## Together AI's words

> Removal date: 2025-12-23; Model: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B; Supported by on-demand dedicated endpoints: No

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent