Merge pull request #2906 from mrbullwinkle/mrb_02_12_2025_model_retirements

[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: 02/06/2025
+ms.date: 02/12/2025
 ms.custom: 
 manager: nitinme
 author: mrbullwinkle
@@ -93,17 +93,15 @@ These models are currently available for use in Azure OpenAI Service.
 
 | Model | Version | Retirement date | Suggested replacements |
 | ---- | ---- | ---- | --- |
-| `babbage-002` | 1 | Retirement Date: January 27, 2025 | |
-| `davinci-002` | 1 | Retirement Date: January 27, 2025 | |
-| `dall-e-2`| 2 | January 27, 2025 | `dalle-3` |
 | `dall-e-3` | 3 | No earlier than April 30, 2025 | |
 | `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 21, 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 21, 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 21, 2025. | `gpt-35-turbo` (0125) <br><br> `gpt-4o-mini` |
+| `gpt-35-turbo-16k`| 0613 | April, 30, 2025 | `gpt-35-turbo` (0125) <br><br> `gpt-4o-mini`|
+| `gpt-35-turbo` | 1106 | No earlier than May 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 21, 2025. | `gpt-35-turbo` (0125) <br><br> `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` | turbo-2024-04-09 | No earlier than April 9, 2025 | `gpt-4o`|
+| `gpt-4` | turbo-2024-04-09 | No earlier than June 6, 2025 | `gpt-4o`|
 | `gpt-4` | 1106-preview | To be upgraded to `gpt-4` version: `turbo-2024-04-09`, starting no sooner than February 10, 2025 **<sup>1</sup>** <br>Retirement date: February 28, 2025  | `gpt-4o`|
 | `gpt-4` | 0125-preview |To be upgraded to `gpt-4` version: `turbo-2024-04-09`, starting no sooner than February 10, 2025 **<sup>1</sup>** <br>Retirement date: February 28, 2025  | `gpt-4o` |
 | `gpt-4` | vision-preview | To be upgraded to `gpt-4` version: `turbo-2024-04-09`, starting no sooner than February 10, 2025  **<sup>1</sup>** <br>Retirement date: February 28, 2025 | `gpt-4o`|
@@ -112,17 +110,17 @@ These models are currently available for use in Azure OpenAI Service.
 | `gpt-4o` | 2024-11-20 | No earlier than November 20, 2025  | |
 | `gpt-4o-mini` | 2024-07-18 | No earlier than July 18, 2025  | |
 | `gpt-4o-realtime-preview` | 2024-10-01 | No earlier than September 30, 2025  | `gpt-4o-realtime-preview` (version 2024-12-17) or `gpt-4o-mini-realtime-preview` (version 2024-12-17) |
-| `gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct` | 0914 | No earlier than April 1, 2025 |  |
+| `gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct` | 0914 | No earlier than May 31, 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 | |
 | `text-embedding-3-large` | | No earlier than October 3, 2025 | |
 
- **<sup>1</sup>** We will notify all customers with these preview deployments at least 30 days before the start of the upgrades. We will publish an upgrade schedule detailing the order of regions and model versions that we will follow during the upgrades, and link to that schedule from here.
+ **<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.
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
-> Vision enhancements preview features including Optical Character Recognition (OCR), object grounding, video prompts will be retired and no longer available once `gpt-4` Version: `vision-preview` is upgraded to `turbo-2024-04-09`. If you are currently relying on any of these preview features, this automatic model upgrade will be a breaking change.
+> Vision enhancements preview features including Optical Character Recognition (OCR), object grounding, video prompts will be retired and no longer available once `gpt-4` Version: `vision-preview` is upgraded to `turbo-2024-04-09`. If you're currently relying on any of these preview features, this automatic model upgrade will be a breaking change.
 
 ## Default model versions
 
@@ -133,12 +131,15 @@ These models are currently available for use in Azure OpenAI Service.
 
 ## Deprecated models
 
-These models were deprecated on July 6, 2023 and were retired on June 14, 2024. These models are no longer available for new deployments. Deployments created before July 6, 2023 remain available to customers until June 14, 2024. We recommend customers migrate their applications to deployments of replacement models before the June 14, 2024 retirement.
+ These models are no longer available for new deployments.
 
 If you're an existing customer looking for information about these models, see [Legacy models](./legacy-models.md).
 
 | Model | Deprecation date | Retirement date | Suggested replacement |
 | --------- | --------------------- | ------------------- | -------------------- |
+| babbage-002 | | January 27, 2025 |  |
+| davinci-002 | | January 27, 2025 | |
+| dall-e-2|  | January 27, 2025 | dalle-3 |
 | ada | July 6, 2023 | June 14, 2024 | babbage-002 |
 | babbage | July 6, 2023 | June 14, 2024 | babbage-002 |
 | curie | July 6, 2023 | June 14, 2024 | davinci-002 |
@@ -169,6 +170,10 @@ If you're an existing customer looking for information about these models, see [
 
 ## Retirement and deprecation history
 
+## February 12, 2025
+
+- Updates to `gpt-35-turbo-16k` (0613), (1106), `gpt-35-turbo-instruct`, `gpt-4` (turbo-2024-04-09)
+
 ## February 6, 2025
 
 - Updates to `gpt-35-turbo`, `gpt-4` preview models, and `gpt-4o` models.