ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2 — Deprecated — shutdown 12 January 2027
For ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2, provider is IBM watsonx.ai; lifecycle status is Deprecated; deprecation announced is 8 May 2026; shutdown / retirement date is 12 January 2027; 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
- ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2 verified
- Human-readable model name
- slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Deprecated
- Release date
- 15 August 2024 verified
- Deprecation announced
- 8 May 2026 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 12 January 2027 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
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
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 |
— ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Where each value comes from
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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 from ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Source
- ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle