Merge pull request #2228 from MicrosoftDocs/main

1/9/2025 PM Publish

Author: Taojunshen

articles/ai-services/computer-vision/includes/model-customization-deprecation.md

@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ ms.author: pafarley
 ---
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
-> This feature is now deprecated. On January 10, 2025, Azure AI Image Analysis 4.0 Custom Image Classification, Custom Object Detection, and Product Recognition preview API will be retired. After this date, API calls to these services will fail.
+> This feature is now deprecated. On March 31, 2025, Azure AI Image Analysis 4.0 Custom Image Classification, Custom Object Detection, and Product Recognition preview API will be retired. After this date, API calls to these services will fail.
 >
 > To maintain a smooth operation of your models, transition to [Azure AI Custom Vision](/azure/ai-services/Custom-Vision-Service/overview), which is now generally available. Custom Vision offers similar functionality to these retiring features.

articles/ai-services/computer-vision/includes/segmentation-deprecation.md

@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ ms.author: pafarley
 ---
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
-> This feature is now deprecated. On January 10, 2025, the Azure AI Image Analysis 4.0 Segment API and background removal service will be retired. All requests to this service will fail after this date.
+> This feature is now deprecated. On March 31, 2025, the Azure AI Image Analysis 4.0 Segment API and background removal service will be retired. All requests to this service will fail after this date.
 >
 > To maintain a smooth operation of your models, install the open-source [Florence 2 model](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Florence-2-large) and use its Region to segmentation feature, which allows for a similar background removal operation.

articles/ai-services/computer-vision/whats-new.md

@@ -11,19 +11,33 @@ ms.custom:
   - ignite-2023
 ms.topic: whats-new
 ms.date: 03/11/2024
-ms.collection: "ce-skilling-fresh-tier2, ce-skilling-ai-copilot"
+ms.collection: ce-skilling-fresh-tier2
 ms.author: pafarley
 ---
 
 # What's new in Azure AI Vision
 
 Learn what's new in Azure AI Vision. Check this page to stay up to date with new features, enhancements, fixes, and documentation updates. 
 
-## September 2024
+## January 2025
 
-### Model customization and Product Recognition deprecation
+### Image Analysis 4.0 Preview API deprecation
 
-On January 10, 2025, the Azure AI Vision Product Recognition and model customization features will be retired. After this date, API calls to these services will fail.
+On March 31, 2025, the Image Analysis 4.0 Preview APIs will be retired. Before that date, you'll need to migrate your Azure Image Analysis workloads to the [Image Analysis 4.0 GA ](/rest/api/computervision/operation-groups?view=rest-computervision-v4.0%20(2024-02-01))API.
+
+We encourage you to make the transition sooner to gain access to improvements such as multimodal embedding, synchronous OCR, people detection, image tagging, smart cropping, caption, dense caption, and image object detection.
+These Image Analysis 4.0 preview APIs will be retired on March 31, 2025:
+- `2022-07-31-preview`
+- `2022-10-12-preview`
+- `2023-02-01-preview`
+- `2023-04-01-preview`
+- `2023-07-01-preview`
+- `v4.0-preview.1`
+
+These features will no longer be available with the retirement of the preview API versions:
+- Model customization
+- Background removal
+- Product recognition
 
 To maintain a smooth operation of your models, transition to [Azure AI Custom Vision](/azure/ai-services/Custom-Vision-Service/overview), which is now generally available. Custom Vision offers similar functionality to these retiring features.
 

articles/ai-services/openai/concepts/model-retirements.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ titleSuffix: Azure OpenAI
 description: Learn about the model deprecations and retirements in Azure OpenAI.
 ms.service: azure-ai-openai
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 12/02/2024
+ms.date: 01/09/2025
 ms.custom: 
 manager: nitinme
 author: mrbullwinkle
@@ -98,15 +98,16 @@ These models are currently available for use in Azure OpenAI Service.
 | `gpt-35-turbo` | 0301 | February 13, 2025<br><br> Deployments set to [**Auto-update to default**](/azure/ai-services/openai/how-to/working-with-models?tabs=powershell#auto-update-to-default) will be automatically upgraded to version: `0125`, starting on January 13, 2025.   | `gpt-35-turbo` (0125) <br><br> `gpt-4o-mini`  |
 | `gpt-35-turbo`<br>`gpt-35-turbo-16k` | 0613 | February 13, 2025 <br><br> Deployments set to [**Auto-update to default**](/azure/ai-services/openai/how-to/working-with-models?tabs=powershell#auto-update-to-default) will be automatically upgraded to version: `0125`, starting on January 13, 2025.  | `gpt-35-turbo` (0125) <br><br> `gpt-4o-mini`|
 | `gpt-35-turbo` | 1106 | No earlier than March 31, 2025 <br><br> Deployments set to [**Auto-update to default**](/azure/ai-services/openai/how-to/working-with-models?tabs=powershell#auto-update-to-default) will be automatically upgraded to version: `0125`, starting on January 13, 2025. | `gpt-35-turbo` (0125) <br><br> `gpt-4o-mini` |
-| `gpt-35-turbo` | 0125 | No earlier than March 31, 2025 | `gpt-4o-mini` |
+| `gpt-35-turbo` | 0125 | No earlier than May 31, 2025 | `gpt-4o-mini` |
 | `gpt-4`<br>`gpt-4-32k` | 0314 | June 6, 2025 | `gpt-4o` |
 | `gpt-4`<br>`gpt-4-32k` | 0613 | June 6, 2025 | `gpt-4o` |
 | `gpt-4` | 1106-preview | To be upgraded to `gpt-4` version: `turbo-2024-04-09`, starting no sooner than January 27, 2025 **<sup>1</sup>** | `gpt-4o`|
 | `gpt-4` | 0125-preview |To be upgraded to `gpt-4` version: `turbo-2024-04-09`, starting no sooner than January 27, 2025 **<sup>1</sup>**  | `gpt-4o` |
 | `gpt-4` | vision-preview | To be upgraded to `gpt-4` version: `turbo-2024-04-09`, starting no sooner than January 27, 2025  **<sup>1</sup>** | `gpt-4o`|
 | `gpt-4o` | 2024-05-13 | No earlier than May 20, 2025 <br><br>Deployments set to [**Auto-update to default**](/azure/ai-services/openai/how-to/working-with-models?tabs=powershell#auto-update-to-default) will be automatically upgraded to version: `2024-08-06`, starting on February 13, 2025. | |
 | `gpt-4o-mini` | 2024-07-18 | No earlier than July 18, 2025  | |
-| `gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct` | 0914 | No earlier than February 1, 2025 |  |
+| `gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct` | 0914 | No earlier than April 1, 2025 |  |
+| `o1` | 2024-12-17 | No earlier than December 17, 2025 | |
 | `text-embedding-ada-002` | 2 | No earlier than October 3, 2025 | `text-embedding-3-small` or `text-embedding-3-large` |
 | `text-embedding-ada-002` | 1 | No earlier than October 3, 2025 | `text-embedding-3-small` or `text-embedding-3-large` |
 | `text-embedding-3-small` | | No earlier than October 3, 2025 | |
@@ -162,6 +163,12 @@ If you're an existing customer looking for information about these models, see [
 
 ## Retirement and deprecation history
 
+## January 9, 2025
+
+- `o1` added.
+- `gpt-35-turbo instruct` updated to no earlier than April 1, 2025.
+- `gpt-35-turbo` (0125) updated to no earlier than May 31, 2025.
+
 ## December 11, 2024
 
 Embeddings models updated to no earlier than October 3, 2025.

articles/ai-services/openai/concepts/model-versions.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ titleSuffix: Azure OpenAI
 description: Learn about model versions in Azure OpenAI. 
 ms.service: azure-ai-openai
 ms.topic: conceptual 
-ms.date: 09/20/2024
+ms.date: 01/09/2025
 manager: nitinme
 author: mrbullwinkle #ChrisHMSFT
 ms.author: mbullwin #chrhoder
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Azure OpenAI Service is committed to providing the best generative AI models for
 
 ## How model versions work
 
-We want to make it easy for customers to stay up to date as models improve.  Customers can choose to start with a particular version and to automatically update as new versions are released.
+We want to make it easy for customers to stay up to date as models improve. Customers can choose to start with a particular version and to automatically update as new versions are released.
 
 When you deploy a model you can choose an update policy, which can include the following options:
 
@@ -27,17 +27,25 @@ When you deploy a model you can choose an update policy, which can include the f
 
 ## How Azure updates OpenAI models
 
-Azure works closely with OpenAI to release new model versions.  When a new version of a model is released, a customer can immediately test it in new deployments.  Azure publishes when new versions of models are released, and notifies customers at least two weeks before a new version becomes the default version of the model.   Azure also maintains the previous major version of the model until its retirement date, so customers can switch back to it if desired.
+Azure works closely with OpenAI to release new model versions. When a new version of a model is released, a customer can immediately test it in new deployments. Azure publishes when new versions of models are released, and notifies customers at least two weeks before a new version becomes the default version of the model.   Azure also maintains the previous major version of the model until its retirement date, so customers can switch back to it if desired.
 
 ## What you need to know about Azure OpenAI model version upgrades
 
-As a customer of Azure OpenAI models, you might notice some changes in the model behavior and compatibility after a version upgrade.  These changes might affect your applications and workflows that rely on the models.  Here are some tips to help you prepare for version upgrades and minimize the impact:
+As a customer of Azure OpenAI models, you might notice some changes in the model behavior and compatibility after a version upgrade. These changes might affect your applications and workflows that rely on the models. Here are some tips to help you prepare for version upgrades:
 
 * Read [what’s new](../whats-new.md) and [models](../concepts/models.md) to understand the changes and new features.
 * Read the documentation on [model deployments](../how-to/create-resource.md) and [version upgrades](../how-to/working-with-models.md) to understand how to work with model versions.
 * Test your applications and workflows with the new model version after release.
 * Update your code and configuration to use the new features and capabilities of the new model version.
 
+### Will a model upgrade happen if the new model version is not yet available in that region?
+
+Yes, even in cases where the latest model version is not yet available in a region, we will automatically 
+upgrade deployments during the scheduled upgrade window. Our engineering team will begin rollout of the new model version starting on the announced 
+upgrade date. For example, if `gpt-35-turbo-0125` is not yet available in Japan East, we will deploy it to Japan East to upgrade older model 
+versions as part of the default model version upgrade process. 
+
+
 ## Next Steps
 
 - [Learn more about working with Azure OpenAI models](../how-to/working-with-models.md)