Merge pull request #3273 from mrbullwinkle/mrb_02_28_2025_API_updates

[Azure OpenAI] 2025-02-01-preview API release

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/ai-services/openai/api-version-deprecation.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ services: cognitive-services
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: azure-ai-openai
 ms.topic: conceptual 
-ms.date: 01/29/2025
+ms.date: 02/28/2025
 author: mrbullwinkle
 ms.author: mbullwin
 recommendations: false
@@ -24,11 +24,12 @@ This article is to help you understand the support lifecycle for the Azure OpenA
 
 Azure OpenAI API latest release:
 
-- Inference: [2025-01-01-preview](reference-preview.md)
-- Authoring: [2025-01-01-preview](https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI/authoring/preview/2025-01-01-preview/azureopenai.json)
+- Inference: [2025-02-01-preview](reference-preview.md)
+- Authoring: [2025-02-01-preview](https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI/authoring/preview/2025-02-01-preview/azureopenai.json)
 
 This version contains support for the latest Azure OpenAI features including:
 
+- [Stored Completions (distillation) API](./how-to/stored-completions.md#stored-completions-api) [**Added in 2025-02-01-preview**]
 - [Predicted Outputs](./how-to/predicted-outputs.md) [**Added in 2025-01-01-preview**]
 - [Reasoning models](./how-to/reasoning.md) [**Added in 2024-12-01-preview**]
 - [Stored completions/distillation](./how-to/stored-completions.md) [**Added in 2024-12-01-preview**]
@@ -42,7 +43,11 @@ This version contains support for the latest Azure OpenAI features including:
 - [Function calling](./how-to/function-calling.md)  [**Added in 2023-07-01-preview**]
 - [Retrieval augmented generation with your data feature](./use-your-data-quickstart.md).  [**Added in 2023-06-01-preview**]
 
-## Changes between 2025-01-01-preview and 2024-12_01_preview
+## Changes between 2025-02-01-preview and 2025-01-01-preview
+
+- [Stored completions (distillation)](./how-to/stored-completions.md#stored-completions-api) API support.
+
+## Changes between 2025-01-01-preview and 2024-12-01-preview
 
 - `prediction` parameter added for [predicted outputs](./how-to/predicted-outputs.md) support.
 - `gpt-4o-audio-preview` [model support](./audio-completions-quickstart.md).

articles/ai-services/openai/includes/api-surface.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description: Information on the division of control plane and data plane API sur
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: azure-ai-openai
 ms.topic: include
-ms.date: 01/29/2025
+ms.date: 02/28/2025
 ---
 
 
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ Each API surface/specification encapsulates a different set of Azure OpenAI capa
 | API | Latest preview release | Latest GA release | Specifications | Description |
 |:---|:----|:----|:----|:---|
 | **Control plane** | [`2024-06-01-preview`](/rest/api/aiservices/accountmanagement/operation-groups?view=rest-aiservices-accountmanagement-2024-06-01-preview&preserve-view=true) | [`2024-10-01`](/rest/api/aiservices/accountmanagement/deployments/create-or-update?view=rest-aiservices-accountmanagement-2024-10-01&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true) | [Spec files](https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cognitiveservices/resource-manager/Microsoft.CognitiveServices) | Azure OpenAI shares a common control plane with all other Azure AI Services. The control plane API is used for things like [creating Azure OpenAI resources](/rest/api/aiservices/accountmanagement/accounts/create?view=rest-aiservices-accountmanagement-2023-05-01&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true), [model deployment](/rest/api/aiservices/accountmanagement/deployments/create-or-update?view=rest-aiservices-accountmanagement-2023-05-01&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true), and other higher level resource management tasks. The control plane also governs what is possible to do with capabilities like Azure Resource Manager, Bicep, Terraform, and Azure CLI.|
-| **Data plane - authoring** | `2025-01-01-preview` | `2024-10-21` | [Spec files](https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI/authoring) | The data plane authoring API controls [fine-tuning](/rest/api/azureopenai/fine-tuning?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&preserve-view=true), [file-upload](/rest/api/azureopenai/files/upload?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true), [ingestion jobs](/rest/api/azureopenai/ingestion-jobs/create?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true), [batch](/rest/api/azureopenai/batch?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true) and certain [model level queries](/rest/api/azureopenai/models/get?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true)
-| **Data plane - inference** | [`2025-01-01-preview`](/azure/ai-services/openai/reference-preview#data-plane-inference) | [`2024-10-21`](/azure/ai-services/openai/reference#data-plane-inference) | [Spec files](https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI/inference) | The data plane inference API provides the inference capabilities/endpoints for features like completions, chat completions, embeddings, speech/whisper, on your data, Dall-e, assistants, etc. |
+| **Data plane - authoring** | `2025-02-01-preview` | `2024-10-21` | [Spec files](https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI/authoring) | The data plane authoring API controls [fine-tuning](/rest/api/azureopenai/fine-tuning?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&preserve-view=true), [file-upload](/rest/api/azureopenai/files/upload?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true), [ingestion jobs](/rest/api/azureopenai/ingestion-jobs/create?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true), [batch](/rest/api/azureopenai/batch?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true) and certain [model level queries](/rest/api/azureopenai/models/get?view=rest-azureopenai-2024-08-01-preview&tabs=HTTP&preserve-view=true)
+| **Data plane - inference** | [`2025-02-01-preview`](/azure/ai-services/openai/reference-preview#data-plane-inference) | [`2024-10-21`](/azure/ai-services/openai/reference#data-plane-inference) | [Spec files](https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI/inference) | The data plane inference API provides the inference capabilities/endpoints for features like completions, chat completions, embeddings, speech/whisper, on your data, Dall-e, assistants, etc. |
 
 ## Authentication
 

articles/ai-services/openai/reference-preview.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ This article provides details on the inference REST API endpoints for Azure Open
 
 ## Data plane inference
 
-The rest of the article covers the latest preview release of the Azure OpenAI data plane inference specification, `2025-01-01-preview`. This article includes documentation for the latest preview capabilities like assistants, threads, and vector stores.
+The rest of the article covers the latest preview release of the Azure OpenAI data plane inference specification, `2025-02-01-preview`. This article includes documentation for the latest preview capabilities like assistants, threads, and vector stores.
 
 If you're looking for documentation on the latest GA API release, refer to the [latest GA data plane inference API](./reference.md)