# google/flan-t5-xl — Withdrawn — shutdown 15 October 2025

For google/flan-t5-xl, provider is IBM watsonx.ai; lifecycle status is Withdrawn; deprecation announced is 19 June 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 15 October 2025; platform / deployment scope is watsonx.ai deploy on demand, recorded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, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** google/flan-t5-xl _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Human-readable model name:** flan-t5-xl-3b _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** Withdrawn
- **Release date:** 7 December 2023 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Deprecation announced:** 19 June 2025 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 15 October 2025 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Platform / deployment scope:** watsonx.ai deploy on demand _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> flan-t5-xl-3b google/flan-t5-xl | 7 December 2023 | 19 June 2025 | 15 October 2025 |

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### 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 |

## Source

- https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle

Last verified: 2026-09-16. Review by: 2026-10-16.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).