Meta Llama 2 7B — Retired — shutdown February 27, 2026
For Meta Llama 2 7B, provider is Databricks; lifecycle status is Retired; shutdown / retirement date is February 27, 2026; recommended replacement is Comparable model on the same offering, like Llama 3.2, 3.3, or 4 model of similar size; platform / deployment scope is Databricks Foundation Model APIs — provisioned throughput, recorded from its source on 2026-09-15.
- Provider
- Databricks our reading
- Model ID / API name
- Meta Llama 2 7B verified
- Lifecycle status
- Retired
- Shutdown / retirement date
- February 27, 2026 verified
- Recommended replacement
- Comparable model on the same offering, like Llama 3.2, 3.3, or 4 model of similar size verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- Databricks Foundation Model APIs — provisioned throughput our reading
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What the source says
Meta Llama 2 7B | Provisioned throughput: February 27, 2026 | Comparable model on the same offering, like Llama 3.2, 3.3, or 4 model of similar size. |
— learn.microsoft.com, retrieved 2026-09-15
Source
- learn.microsoft.comhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/machine-learning/retired-models-policy
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