Merge pull request #2773 from mrbullwinkle/mrb_02_06_2025_cleanup

[Azure OpenAI] babbage--02 davinci-002 retirement cleanup

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/ai-services/openai/concepts/fine-tuning-considerations.md

@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ Even with a great use case, fine-tuning is only as good as the quality of the da
 
 Another important point is even with high quality data if your data isn't in the necessary format for fine-tuning you'll need to commit engineering resources in order to properly format the data.
 
-| Data  | Babbage-002 <br> Davinci-002 | GPT-3.5-Turbo <br> GPT-4o & GPT-4o mini <br> GPT-4 |
-|---|---|---|
-| Volume | Thousands of Examples | Thousands of Examples |
-| Format | Prompt/Completion | Conversational Chat |
+| Data   | GPT-3.5-Turbo <br> GPT-4o & GPT-4o mini <br> GPT-4 |
+|---|---|
+| Volume  | Thousands of Examples |
+| Format | Conversational Chat |
 
 **If you are ready for fine-tuning you:**
 

articles/ai-services/openai/concepts/models.md

@@ -346,8 +346,6 @@ These models can only be used with Embedding API requests.
 
 ### Completions models
 
-`babbage-002` and `davinci-002` are not trained to follow instructions. Querying these base models should only be done as a point of reference to a fine-tuned version to evaluate the progress of your training.
-
 [!INCLUDE [Completions](../includes/model-matrix/standard-completions.md)]
 
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articles/ai-services/openai/overview.md

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Azure OpenAI Service provides REST API access to OpenAI's powerful language mode
 | Feature | Azure OpenAI |
 | --- | --- |
 | Models available | [**o3-mini & o1**](./how-to/reasoning.md) - (Limited Access - [**Request Access**](https://aka.ms/OAI/o1access))<br>[**o1-mini**](./how-to/reasoning.md)<br>**GPT-4o & GPT-4o mini**<br> **GPT-4 series (including GPT-4 Turbo with Vision)** <br>**GPT-3.5-Turbo series**<br> Embeddings series <br> Learn more in our [Models](./concepts/models.md) page.|
-| Fine-tuning | `GPT-4o-mini` (preview) <br> `GPT-4` (preview) <br>`GPT-3.5-Turbo` (0613) <br> `babbage-002` <br> `davinci-002`.|
+| Fine-tuning | `GPT-4o-mini` (preview) <br> `GPT-4` (preview) <br>`GPT-3.5-Turbo` (0613).|
 | Price | [Available here](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/) <br> For details on vision-enabled chat models, see the [special pricing information](../openai/concepts/gpt-with-vision.md#special-pricing-information).|
 | Virtual network support & private link support | Yes.  |
 | Managed Identity| Yes, via Microsoft Entra ID |