# distil-whisper-large-v3-en — End-of-Life — shutdown 08/23/25

For distil-whisper-large-v3-en, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; shutdown / retirement date is 08/23/25; recommended replacement is whisper-large-v3-turbo, recorded from its source on 2026-09-09.

- **Provider:** Groq _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** distil-whisper-large-v3-en _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** End-of-Life
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 08/23/25 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** whisper-large-v3-turbo _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> | distil-whisper-large-v3-en | 08/23/25      | whisper-large-v3-turbo           |

## Source

- https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
- https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations

Last verified: 2026-09-09. Review by: 2026-10-09.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).