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cross-encoder/ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 — Withdrawn — shutdown 8 August 2026

For cross-encoder/ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2, provider is IBM watsonx.ai; lifecycle status is Withdrawn; deprecation announced is 8 May 2026; shutdown / retirement date is 8 August 2026; recommended replacement is granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large; platform / deployment scope is watsonx.ai embedding models (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Toronto, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers), recorded from its source on 2026-09-16.

Provider
IBM watsonx.ai our reading
Model ID / API name
cross-encoder/ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 verified
Human-readable model name
ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 verified
Lifecycle status
Withdrawn
Release date
21 October 2024 verified
Deprecation announced
8 May 2026 verified
Shutdown / retirement date
8 August 2026 verified
Recommended replacement
granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large verified
Platform / deployment scope
watsonx.ai embedding models (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Toronto, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers) our reading
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What the source says

ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Toronto, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers) cross-encoder/ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 | 21 October 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 8 August 2026 | granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large |

— ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16

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Release date

Foundation model name API model ID | Availability date | Deprecation date | Withdrawal date | Recommended alternative model | slate-30m-english-rtrvr-v2 (Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Toronto, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers) ibm/slate-30m-english-rtrvr-v2 | 15 August 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large | slate-30m-english-rtrvr-v2 (Dallas data center only) ibm/slate-30m-english-rtrvr-v2 | 15 August 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large | slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2 (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Toronto, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers) ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2 | 15 August 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large | all-minilm-l6-v2 (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo data centers) sentence-transformers/all-minilm-l6-v2 | 29 October 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large | ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Toronto, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers) cross-encoder/ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 | 21 October 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 8 August 2026 | granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large |

— all from ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16

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