Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct — Removed — shutdown 2026-01-05 or August 31, 2026 — sources disagree
For Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct, provider is Together AI; lifecycle status is Removed; shutdown / retirement date is disputed: 2026-01-05 per docs.together.ai, August 31, 2026 per docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com; platform / deployment scope is Together AI serverless inference, recorded from its source on 2026-09-15; source re-checked 2026-11-11.
- Provider
- Together AI our reading
- Nebius Token Factory per docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com
- Model ID / API name
- Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct verified
- Lifecycle status
- Removed verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 2026-01-05 sources disagree
- Platform / deployment scope
- Together AI serverless inference our reading
- Nebius Token Factory serverless (dedicated endpoints unaffected) per docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com
- Recommended replacement
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 per docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com
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
| 2026-01-05 | `Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct` | No |
— docs.together.ai, retrieved 2026-09-15
Where each value comes from
The values above are stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states them is shown here too.
Lifecycle status and Platform / deployment scope
The table below lists all models removed from serverless inference, most recent first.
— all from docs.together.ai, retrieved 2026-09-15
Sources disagree
More than one authority states this, and they do not state the same thing. Both are reproduced with the source each came from — deciding between them is yours, not ours.
Shutdown / retirement date
docs.together.ai says shutdown / retirement date is 2026-01-05, as of 2026-09-15.
| 2026-01-05 | `Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct` | No |
https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com says shutdown / retirement date is August 31, 2026, as of 2026-09-16.
| [`Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct`](https://tokenfactory.nebius.com/models/catalog/image2text/Qwen%2FQwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct) | [`MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3`](https://tokenfactory.nebius.com/models/catalog/text2text/MiniMaxAI%2FMiniMax-M3) |
https://docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com/august-2026-deprecation-notice.md
Where the other sources' values come from
These values were taken from a passage elsewhere on the other source's page, not from the row quoted with it above.
Shutdown / retirement date
These models will be removed from Token Factory on **August 31, 2026**.
— docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Platform / deployment scope
Affected Serverless models will no longer be available via API or Playground.
— docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Sources
- docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
- docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations
- docs.tokenfactory.nebius.comhttps://docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com/august-2026-deprecation-notice.md
- docs.tokenfactory.nebius.comhttps://docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com/august-2026-deprecation-notice