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Browse source-linked api / model / infra records with lifecycle events, current status, evidence links, and review dates.

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OpenAI GPT-3 base modelsmodel_discontinued

OpenAI’s deprecations documentation records the retirement of older GPT-3 base and related completion models, including text-davinci-003, as part of the API lifecycle.

Latest: 2024-01-04 · Legacy GPT-3 models retired

modelOpenAIEvidence 1Confidence: high

The Assistants API is tracked as an API lifecycle record because OpenAI has announced a planned sunset path toward the newer Responses API.

Latest: 2025-03-11 · Assistants API sunset path announced

apiOpenAIEvidence 1Confidence: high

Anthropic lists Claude 1 and Claude Instant model variants as retired, with recommended replacement guidance in its model deprecations documentation.

Latest: 2024-11-06 · Claude 1 and Instant models retired

modelAnthropicEvidence 1Confidence: high

Anthropic’s model lifecycle documentation records the retirement of Claude 2, Claude 2.1, and Claude Sonnet 3 models with replacement guidance.

Latest: 2025-07-21 · Claude 2 and Sonnet 3 models retired

modelAnthropicEvidence 1Confidence: high

Gemini 2.0 Flash and related Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite model entries are tracked as API model lifecycle records because Google lists shutdown dates and replacements for them.

Latest: 2026-06-01 · Gemini 2.0 Flash model shutdown date reached

modelGoogleEvidence 1Confidence: high
Google text-embedding-004model_discontinued

text-embedding-004 is tracked as a model lifecycle record because Google lists its shutdown date and replacement in the Gemini API deprecations table.

Latest: 2026-01-14 · text-embedding-004 shutdown date reached

modelGoogleEvidence 1Confidence: high

imagen-3.0-generate-002 is tracked as an image-generation model lifecycle record because Google lists its shutdown date and replacement in the Gemini API deprecations table.

Latest: 2025-11-10 · imagen-3.0-generate-002 shutdown date reached

modelGoogleEvidence 1Confidence: high