llama-3.1-70b-specdec — End-of-Life — shutdown 01/24/25
For llama-3.1-70b-specdec, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; deprecation announced is December 6, 2024; shutdown / retirement date is 01/24/25; recommended replacement is llama-3.3-70b-specdec, recorded from its source on 2026-09-09.
- Provider
- Groq our reading
- Model ID / API name
- llama-3.1-70b-specdec verified
- Lifecycle status
- End-of-Life
- Deprecation announced
- December 6, 2024 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 01/24/25 verified
- Recommended replacement
- llama-3.3-70b-specdec verified
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What the source says
| llama-3.1-70b-specdec | 01/24/25 | llama-3.3-70b-specdec |
— console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-09
Where each value comes from
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Deprecation announced
On December 6, 2024, in partnership with Meta, we released llama-3.3-70b-versatile and llama-3.3-70b-specdec, and notified users that we would deprecate their 3.1 counterparts in favor of hosting Llama 3.3 with significant quality improvements for a better experience.
— all from console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-09
Sources
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
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