{"slug": "meta-llama-3-70b-instruct-retired", "title": "Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct retired", "summary": "Microsoft retired Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct on Azure AI Foundry, delisting the model from its azure-hosted deployment catalog as of August 2026. The model, released on April 18, 2024, had an 8k context length and 2k max output, and its retirement date was no longer published after being purged from the schedule document.", "body_md": "MF✕ Retired\n\n# Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct\n\nMicrosoft · meta-llama-3-70b-instruct\n\nRetired on Azure AI Foundry (azure-hosted deployment). Llama-3.0 serverless retirement; row since purged from the schedule doc, exact date no longer published. Delisted from models.dev's azure catalog 2026-08.\n\n[Provider statement →](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/ai-foundry/openai/includes/retirement/models.md)Released2024-04-18\n\nRetiresno announced date\n\nllamatext8k context2k max out\n\nalso matches:\n\n`meta-llama-3-70b-instruct`\n\n`microsoft/meta-llama-3-70b-instruct`\n\n[provider announcement →](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/ai-foundry/openai/includes/retirement/models.md)\n\nDoes your code call Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status`\n\nin any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-70b-instruct-retired", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/microsoft/microsoft/meta-llama-3-70b-instruct", "published_at": "2026-08-19 17:18:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 14:16:56.233216+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Microsoft", "Azure AI Foundry", "Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-70b-instruct-retired", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-70b-instruct-retired.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-70b-instruct-retired.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-70b-instruct-retired.jsonld"}}