Merge pull request #3488 from mrbullwinkle/mrb_03_11_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: 02/28/2025
+ms.date: 03/11/2025
 ms.custom: 
 manager: nitinme
 author: mrbullwinkle
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ These models are currently available for use in Azure OpenAI Service.
 | `gpt-4` | 1106-preview | To be upgraded to **`gpt-4o` version: `2024-11-20`**, starting no sooner than March 10, 2025 **<sup>1</sup>** <br>Retirement date: April 02, 2025  | `gpt-4o`|
 | `gpt-4` | 0125-preview |To be upgraded to **`gpt-4o` version: `2024-11-20`**, starting no sooner than March 10, 2025 **<sup>1</sup>** <br>Retirement date: April 02, 2025  | `gpt-4o` |
 | `gpt-4` | vision-preview | To be upgraded to **`gpt-4o` version: `2024-11-20`**, starting no sooner than March 10, 2025  **<sup>1</sup>** <br>Retirement date: April 02, 2025 | `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` | 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  | |
 | `gpt-4o-mini` | 2024-07-18 | No earlier than July 18, 2025  | |
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ These models are currently available for use in Azure OpenAI Service.
 | `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 | |
+| `text-embedding-3-small` | | No earlier than January 25, 2026 | |
+| `text-embedding-3-large` | | No earlier than January 25, 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.