gemma-7b-it — End-of-Life or Removed — shutdown 12/18/24 or 2024-08-22 — sources disagree
For gemma-7b-it, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is disputed: End-of-Life per console.groq.com, Removed per docs.together.ai; deprecation announced is December 11, 2024; shutdown / retirement date is disputed: 12/18/24 per console.groq.com, 2024-08-22 per docs.together.ai; recommended replacement is gemma2-9b-it, recorded from its source on 2026-09-21; source re-checked 2026-11-11.
- Provider
- Groq our reading
- Together AI per docs.together.ai
- Model ID / API name
- gemma-7b-it verified
- Lifecycle status
- End-of-Life sources disagree
- Deprecation announced
- December 11, 2024 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 12/18/24 sources disagree
- Recommended replacement
- gemma2-9b-it verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- Together AI serverless inference per docs.together.ai
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
| gemma-7b-it | 12/18/24 | gemma2-9b-it |
— console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-21
Where each value comes from
The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.
Deprecation announced
On December 11, 2024, we emailed all Gemma 7B users that we would deprecate it in favor of keeping the Gemma 9B model as it offers better performance.
— all from console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-21
Sources disagree
More than one authority states this, and they do not state the same thing. Both are reproduced with the source each came from — deciding between them is yours, not ours.
Lifecycle status
console.groq.com says lifecycle status is End-of-Life, as of 2026-09-21.
| gemma-7b-it | 12/18/24 | gemma2-9b-it |
https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
docs.together.ai says lifecycle status is Removed, as of 2026-09-15.
| 2024-08-22 | `google/gemma-7b-it` | No |
https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
Shutdown / retirement date
console.groq.com says shutdown / retirement date is 12/18/24, as of 2026-09-21.
| gemma-7b-it | 12/18/24 | gemma2-9b-it |
https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
docs.together.ai says shutdown / retirement date is 2024-08-22, as of 2026-09-15.
| 2024-08-22 | `google/gemma-7b-it` | No |
Where the other sources' values come from
These values were taken from a passage elsewhere on the other source's page, not from the row quoted with it above.
Lifecycle status
The table below lists all models removed from serverless inference, most recent first.
— docs.together.ai, retrieved 2026-09-15
Sources
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
- docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
- docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations