Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct retired 2026-06-13

Microsoft retired Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct on Azure AI Foundry on 2026-06-13, part of a serverless retirement wave that also affected Meta-Llama-3.1-405B and 8B-Instruct. The model, released 2024-07-23, was delisted from models.dev's Azure catalog in August 2026. Developers are advised to check their code for usage and prepare for migration.

MF✕ Retired Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct Microsoft · meta-llama-3.1-70b-instruct Retired on Azure AI Foundry azure-hosted deployment . Same Azure serverless retirement wave as Meta-Llama-3.1-405B/8B-Instruct doc: Retired 2026-06-13 . Delisted from models.dev's azure catalog 2026-08. Provider statement → https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/ai-foundry/openai/includes/retirement/models.md Released2024-07-23 Retires2026-06-132mo ago llamatext128k context33k max out also matches: meta-llama-3.1-70b-instruct microsoft/meta-llama-3.1-70b-instruct provider announcement → https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/ai-foundry/openai/includes/retirement/models.md Does your code call Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct? $ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash Then mm status in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded. Get alerted before it retires → /sign-up