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Author: mrbullwinkle

articles/ai-services/openai/api-version-deprecation.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ services: cognitive-services
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: azure-ai-openai
 ms.topic: conceptual 
-ms.date: 03/07/2024
+ms.date: 03/12/2024
 author: mrbullwinkle
 ms.author: mbullwin
 recommendations: false
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ ms.custom:
 This article is to help you understand the support lifecycle for the Azure OpenAI API previews. New preview APIs target a monthly release cadence. Post April 2, 2024, the latest three preview APIs will remain supported while older APIs will no longer be supported.
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> The `2023-06-01-preview` API will remain supported at this time, as `DALL-E 2` is only available in this API version. `DALL-E 3` is supported in the latest API releases.
+> The `2023-06-01-preview` API will remain supported at this time, as `DALL-E 2` is only available in this API version. `DALL-E 3` is supported in the latest API releases. The `2023-10-01-preview` API will also remain supported at this time.
 
 ## Latest preview API release
 
@@ -28,13 +28,20 @@ This version contains support for all the latest Azure OpenAI features including
 
 - [Embeddings `encoding_format` and `dimensions` parameters] [**Added in 2024-03-01-preview**]
 - [Assistants API](./assistants-reference.md). [**Added in 2024-02-15-preview**]
-- [DALL-E 3](./dall-e-quickstart.md). [**Added in 2023-12-01-preview**]
 - [Text to speech](./text-to-speech-quickstart.md). [**Added in 2024-02-15-preview**]
+- [DALL-E 3](./dall-e-quickstart.md). [**Added in 2023-12-01-preview**]
 - [Fine-tuning](./how-to/fine-tuning.md) `gpt-35-turbo`, `babbage-002`, and `davinci-002` models.[**Added in 2023-10-01-preview**]
 - [Whisper](./whisper-quickstart.md). [**Added in 2023-09-01-preview**]
 - [Function calling](./how-to/function-calling.md)  [**Added in 2023-07-01-preview**]
 - [Retrieval augmented generation with the on your data feature](./use-your-data-quickstart.md).  [**Added in 2023-06-01-preview**]
 
+## Latest GA API release
+
+Azure OpenAI API version [2024-02-01](https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI/inference/stable/2024-02-01/inference.json)
+is currently the latest GA API release. This API version is the replacement for the previous`2023-05-15` GA API release.
+
+This version contains support for the latest GA features like Whisper, DALL-E 3, fine-tuning, on your data, etc. Any preview features that were released after the `2023-12-01-preview` release like Assistants, TTS, certain on your data data sources, are only supported in the latest preview API releases.
+
 ## Retiring soon
 
 On April 2, 2024 the following API preview releases will be retired and will stop accepting API requests:
@@ -43,7 +50,6 @@ On April 2, 2024 the following API preview releases will be retired and will sto
 - 2023-07-01-preview
 - 2023-08-01-preview
 - 2023-09-01-preview
-- 2023-10-01-preview
 - 2023-12-01-preview
 
 To avoid service disruptions, you must update to use the latest preview version before the retirement date.

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

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ titleSuffix: Azure OpenAI
 description: Learn about the different model capabilities that are available with Azure OpenAI.
 ms.service: azure-ai-openai
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 03/06/2024
+ms.date: 03/12/2024
 ms.custom: references_regions, build-2023, build-2023-dataai, refefences_regions
 manager: nitinme
 author: mrbullwinkle #ChrisHMSFT
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Azure OpenAI Service is powered by a diverse set of models with different capabi
 | [GPT-3.5](#gpt-35) | A set of models that improve on GPT-3 and can understand and generate natural language and code. |
 | [Embeddings](#embeddings-models) | A set of models that can convert text into numerical vector form to facilitate text similarity. |
 | [DALL-E](#dall-e-models) | A series of models that can generate original images from natural language. |
-| [Whisper](#whisper-models-preview) (Preview) | A series of models in preview that can transcribe and translate speech to text. |
+| [Whisper](#whisper-models) | A series of models in preview that can transcribe and translate speech to text. |
 | [Text to speech](#text-to-speech-models-preview) (Preview) | A series of models in preview that can synthesize text to speech. |
 
 ## GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo Preview
@@ -71,11 +71,11 @@ OpenAI's MTEB benchmark testing found that even when the third generation model'
 
 The DALL-E models generate images from text prompts that the user provides. DALL-E 3 is generally available for use with the REST APIs. DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 with client SDKs are in preview.
 
-## Whisper (Preview)
+## Whisper
 
-The Whisper models, currently in preview, can be used for speech to text.
+The Whisper models, can be used for speech to text.
 
-You can also use the Whisper model via Azure AI Speech [batch transcription](../../speech-service/batch-transcription-create.md) API. Check out [What is the Whisper model?](../../speech-service/whisper-overview.md) to learn more about when to use Azure AI Speech vs. Azure OpenAI Service. 
+You can also use the Whisper model via Azure AI Speech [batch transcription](../../speech-service/batch-transcription-create.md) API. Check out [What is the Whisper model?](../../speech-service/whisper-overview.md) to learn more about when to use Azure AI Speech vs. Azure OpenAI Service.
 
 ## Text to speech (Preview)
 
@@ -222,11 +222,11 @@ The following Embeddings models are available with [Azure Government](/azure/azu
 | `gpt-35-turbo` (0125)  | North Central US <br> Sweden Central  | 16,385 | Sep 2021 |
 
 
-### Whisper models (Preview)
+### Whisper models
 
 |  Model ID  | Model Availability | Max Request (audio file size) |
 |  --- |  --- | :---: |
-| `whisper` | North Central US <br> West Europe | 25 MB |
+| `whisper` | East US 2 <br> North Central US <br> Norway East <br> South India <br> Sweden Central <br> West Europe | 25 MB |
 
 ### Text to speech models (Preview)
 

articles/ai-services/openai/whats-new.md

@@ -10,14 +10,36 @@ ms.custom:
   - ignite-2023
   - references_regions
 ms.topic: whats-new
-ms.date: 03/07/2024
+ms.date: 03/12/2024
 recommendations: false
 ---
 
 # What's new in Azure OpenAI Service
 
 ## March 2024
 
+### 2024-02-01 general availability (GA) API released
+
+This is the latest GA API release and is the replacement for the previous `2023-05-15` GA release. This release adds support for the latest Azure OpenAI GA features like Whisper, DALLE-3, fine-tuning, on your data etc.
+
+Features that are still in preview such as Assistants, text to speech (TTS), certain on your data data sources, still require a preview API version. For more information check out our [API version lifecycle guide](./api-version-deprecation.md).
+
+### Whisper general availability (GA)
+
+The Whisper speech to text model is now GA for both REST and Python. Client library SDKs are currently still in public preview.
+
+Try out Whisper by following a [quickstart](./whisper-quickstart.md.md).
+
+### DALL-E 3 general availability (GA)
+
+DALL-E 3 image generation model is now GA for both REST and Python. Client library SDKs are currently still in public preview.
+
+Try out DALL-E 3 by following a [quickstart](./dall-e-quickstart.md).
+
+### New regional support for DALL-E 3
+
+You can now access DALL-E 3 with an Azure OpenAI resource in the `East US` or `AustraliaEast` Azure region, in addition to `SwedenCentral`.
+
 ### 2024-03-01-preview API released
 
 `2024-03-01-preview` has all the same functionality as `2024-02-15-preview` and adds two new parameters for embeddings:
@@ -35,16 +57,6 @@ For more information on the upgrade process refer to the [models page](./concept
 
 ## February 2024
 
-### DALL-E 3 general availability
-
-The REST API for the DALL-E 3 image generation model is now in GA. The client library SDKs are in private preview.
-
-Try out DALL-E 3 by following a [quickstart](./dall-e-quickstart.md).
-
-### New regional support for DALL-E 3
-
-You can now access DALL-E 3 with an Azure OpenAI resource in the `East US` or `AustraliaEast` Azure region, in addition to `SwedenCentral`.
-
 ### GPT-3.5-turbo-0125 model available
 
 This model has various improvements, including higher accuracy at responding in requested formats and a fix for a bug which caused a text encoding issue for non-English language function calls.