ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr — Withdrawn — shutdown 12 November 2025
For ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr, provider is IBM watsonx.ai; lifecycle status is Withdrawn; deprecation announced is 13 August 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 12 November 2025; recommended replacement is slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2; platform / deployment scope is watsonx.ai embedding models, recorded from its source on 2026-09-16.
- Provider
- IBM watsonx.ai our reading
- Model ID / API name
- ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr verified
- Human-readable model name
- slate-125m-english-rtrvr verified
- Lifecycle status
- Withdrawn
- Release date
- 11 April 2024 verified
- Deprecation announced
- 13 August 2025 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 12 November 2025 verified
- Recommended replacement
- slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2 verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- watsonx.ai embedding models our reading
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What the source says
slate-125m-english-rtrvr ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr | 11 April 2024 | 13 August 2025 | 12 November 2025 | slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2 Deprecated |
— ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
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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-minilm-l6-v2 (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo data centers) sentence-transformers/all-minilm-l6-v2 | 29 October 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large | ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Toronto, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers) cross-encoder/ms-marco-minilm-l-12-v2 | 21 October 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 8 August 2026 | granite-embedding-278m-multilingual, multilingual-e5-large | slate-125m-english-rtrvr ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr | 11 April 2024 | 13 August 2025 | 12 November 2025 | slate-125m-english-rtrvr-v2 Deprecated |
— 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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