Get notified about model retirement dates in OCI Generative AI
- Services: Generative AI
- Release Date: July 10, 2025
OCI Generative AI has added Console messages, API date parameters, and OCI notification announcements for model deprecation and retirement.
- Console Messages
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OCI Generative AI displays warning messages in the Console for deprecated models.
- API Date Parameters
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After a model is deprecated, any inference call to that model includes another response header called
model-retirement-info
. This header highlights the model's upcoming retirement date. After the retirement date, inference API calls to that model no longer work.To retrieve detailed information about a model's deprecation and retirement dates, use the GetModel API. For definitions of these parameters, see the Model reference, which includes:
timeDeprecated
: The date when the model is deprecated.timeOnDemandRetired
: The date when the model is retired for on-demand mode.timeDedicatedRetired
: The date when the model is retired for dedicated mode.
- OCI Notification Announcements
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Subscribe to OCI Notifications service to get model deprecation and retirement messages with the following communication cadence:
- On-demand mode: 14 and 7 days before the model retirement date.
- Dedicated mode: 90, 60, 30, and 7 days before the model retirement date.
To subscribe to OCI Announcements to receive service notifications, see Subscribing to Announcements.
For information about model retirement in OCI Generative AI, see Retiring the Models. For information about the service, see the Generative AI documentation.