Merge pull request #4203 from mrbullwinkle/mrb_04_17_2025_model_retirement

[Azure OpenAI] Model retirement updates

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

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: 04/14/2025
+ms.date: 04/17/2025
 ms.custom: 
 manager: nitinme
 author: mrbullwinkle
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ These models are currently available for use in Azure OpenAI Service.
 | `gpt-4` | vision-preview | To be upgraded to **`gpt-4o` version: `2024-11-20`**, starting no sooner than April 17, 2025  **<sup>1</sup>** <br>Retirement date: May 1, 2025 | `gpt-4o`|
 | `gpt-4.5-preview` | 2025-02-27 | No earlier than July 02, 2025 | `gpt-4.1` |
 | `gpt-4.1` | 2025-04-14 | No earlier than April 11, 2026 | |
+| `gpt-4.1-mini` | 2025-04-14 | No earlier than April 11, 2026 |
+| `gpt-4.1-nano` | 2025-04-14 | No earlier than April 11, 2026 |
 | `gpt-4o` | 2024-05-13 | No earlier than June 30, 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 March 17, 2025. | |
 | `gpt-4o` | 2024-08-06 | No earlier than August 6, 2025  | |
 | `gpt-4o` | 2024-11-20 | No earlier than November 20, 2025  | |
@@ -113,11 +115,14 @@ These models are currently available for use in Azure OpenAI Service.
 | `gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct` | 0914 | No earlier than May 31, 2025 |  |
 | `o1-preview` | 2024-09-12 | No earlier than April 2, 2025 | `o1` |
 | `o1` | 2024-12-17 | No earlier than December 17, 2025 | |
+| `o4-mini` | 2025-04-16 | No earlier than April 11, 2026 | |
+| `o3` | 2025-04-16 | No earlier than April 11, 2026 | |
 | `o3-mini` | 2025-01-31 | No earlier than February 1, 2026 | |
-| `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 January 25, 2026 | |
-| `text-embedding-3-large` | | No earlier than January 25, 2026 | |
+| `text-embedding-ada-002` | 2 | No earlier than April 30, 2026 | `text-embedding-3-small` or `text-embedding-3-large` |
+| `text-embedding-ada-002` | 1 | No earlier than April 30, 2026 | `text-embedding-3-small` or `text-embedding-3-large` |
+| `text-embedding-3-small` | | No earlier than April 30, 2026 | |
+| `text-embedding-3-large` | | No earlier than April 30, 2026 | |
+
 
  **<sup>1</sup>** We'll notify all customers with these preview deployments at least 30 days before the start of the upgrades. We'll publish an upgrade schedule detailing the order of regions and model versions that we'll follow during the upgrades, and link to that schedule from here.
 
@@ -181,7 +186,7 @@ If you're an existing customer looking for information about these models, see [
 
 ## April 15, 2025
 
-To track further updates to this article refer to the [Git History](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/commits/main/articles/ai-services/openai/concepts/model-retirements.md)
+To track further individual updates to this article refer to the [Git History](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/commits/main/articles/ai-services/openai/concepts/model-retirements.md)
 
 ## March 18, 2025