# Meta-Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct — Deprecated — shutdown 6/25/2025

For Meta-Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct, provider is SambaNova; lifecycle status is Deprecated; deprecation announced is June 11, 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 6/25/2025; recommended replacement is Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct; platform / deployment scope is SambaNova SambaCloud (model remains available on SambaStack), recorded from its source on 2026-09-15.

- **Provider:** SambaNova _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** Meta-Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** Deprecated _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Deprecation announced:** June 11, 2025 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 6/25/2025 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Platform / deployment scope:** SambaNova SambaCloud (model remains available on SambaStack) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> | `Meta-Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct`     | 6/25/2025    | `Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct`                                  |

## Where each value comes from

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

### Lifecycle status

> Models that are being deprecated and moved to SambaStack only:

### Deprecation announced

> June 25, 2025 On June 11, 2025, SambaNova notified users of the following model deprecations and category changes, which were moved from Production to Preview.

## Source

- https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/deprecations.md
- https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/deprecations

Last verified: 2026-09-15. Review by: 2026-10-15.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).