Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct retired

Microsoft retired Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct on Azure AI Foundry, removing the serverless deployment and delisting the model from models.dev's Azure catalog in August 2026. The model, released on 2024-04-18 with an 8k context window and 2k max output, had no announced retirement date. The retirement affects developers using the model via Azure-hosted deployments.

MF✕ Retired Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct Microsoft · meta-llama-3-8b-instruct Retired 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. Provider statement → https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/ai-foundry/openai/includes/retirement/models.md Released2024-04-18 Retiresno announced date llamatext8k context2k max out also matches: meta-llama-3-8b-instruct microsoft/meta-llama-3-8b-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-3-8B-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