google/flan-t5-xl — Withdrawn — shutdown 15 October 2025
For google/flan-t5-xl, provider is IBM watsonx.ai; lifecycle status is Withdrawn; deprecation announced is 19 June 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 15 October 2025; platform / deployment scope is watsonx.ai deploy on demand, recorded from its source on 2026-09-16.
- Provider
- IBM watsonx.ai our reading
- Model ID / API name
- google/flan-t5-xl verified
- Human-readable model name
- flan-t5-xl-3b verified
- Lifecycle status
- Withdrawn
- Release date
- 7 December 2023 verified
- Deprecation announced
- 19 June 2025 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 15 October 2025 verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- watsonx.ai deploy on demand our reading
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What the source says
flan-t5-xl-3b google/flan-t5-xl | 7 December 2023 | 19 June 2025 | 15 October 2025 |
— ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
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Release date
Foundation model name API model ID | Availability date | Deprecation date | Withdrawal date | llama-2-13b-chat meta-llama/llama-2-13b-chat | 8 January 2025 | – | 30 January 2026 | granite-13b-instruct-v2 ibm/granite-13b-instruct-v2 | 1 December 2023 | 19 June 2025 | 15 October 2025 | flan-t5-xl-3b google/flan-t5-xl | 7 December 2023 | 19 June 2025 | 15 October 2025 |
— all from ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Source
- ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle
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