BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Killed by AI//Upcoming AI shutdowns//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Upcoming AI shutdowns β€” Killed by AI X-WR-CALDESC:Confirmed shutdown and deprecation dates for AI products and models. Source: killedbyai.net/coming-soon/ REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:P1D BEGIN:VEVENT UID:amazon-nova-gen-1-premier-sonic-canvas-reel@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260915 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Amazon Nova Gen-1 (Premier\, Sonic\, Canvas\, Reel) shuts do wn DESCRIPTION:Amazon's first-generation Nova line is being cleared off Bedr ock: Premier and Sonic on September 14\, Canvas and Reel on September 30 . Nova launched at re:Invent in December 2024 as Amazon's answer to fron tier models\; the second generation replaces it inside two years. Replac ement: Nova 2 Sonic / Nova 2 Lite\; Luma Ray v2 for video. Source: https ://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-lifecycle.html URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#amazon-nova-gen-1-premier-sonic-c anvas-reel CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mai-transcribe-1-microsoft-foundry@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260916 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ MAI-Transcribe-1 (Microsoft Foundry) shuts down DESCRIPTION:Version 2026-01-23\, retired September 15\, 2026 β€” less tha n eight months old. Microsoft's first-party speech model line is now on the same accelerated churn as its image models. Replacement: MAI-Transcr ibe-1.5. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/ concepts/model-retirement-schedule URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#mai-transcribe-1-microsoft-foundr y CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sora-api@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260924 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260925 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Sora API shuts down DESCRIPTION:While the Sora app died in April\, the API endpoint survives until September. Then it's gone completely. Replacement: None (ChatGPT i mage gen only). Source: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001152-wha t-to-know-about-the-sora-discontinuation URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#sora-api CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:openai-davinci-002-babbage-002-gpt-3-5-turbo-instruct@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260928 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260929 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ OpenAI davinci-002\, babbage-002 & gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct sh uts down DESCRIPTION:The end of the GPT-3 base-model lineage. These three shipped in August 2023\, inherited the job when the original ada/babbage/curie/d avinci died in January 2024\, and are the last models served over the le gacy /v1/completions endpoint. Their own fine-tuned versions outlive the m by 25 days. Replacement: gpt-5.6-terra. Source: https://developers.ope nai.com/api/docs/deprecations URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#openai-davinci-002-babbage-002-gp t-3-5-turbo-instruct CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mistral-leanstral-1-5@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261001 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Mistral Leanstral 1.5 shuts down DESCRIPTION:Mistral announced this Lean 4 formal-proof model's death in t he same sentence that announced its birth. The changelog reads: 'We rele ased Leanstral 1.5... This model will be retired on September 30\, 2026. ' A 92-day advertised lifespan\, dead on arrival by design. Replacement: None named. Source: https://github.com/mistralai/platform-docs-public URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#mistral-leanstral-1-5 CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:amazon-mechanical-turk@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261001 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Amazon Mechanical Turk shuts down DESCRIPTION:The 21-year-old marketplace Jeff Bezos once called "artificia l artificial intelligence" β€” the humans who labelled a generation of t raining data β€” closes on September 30\, 2026. New customers were cut o ff July 30. Amazon cites "an internal assessment of its programs and ser vices"\; everyone else notes that the models MTurk workers trained now d o MTurk's job. Replacement: None β€” Scale AI\, Mercor and Prolific abso rbed the market. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service- that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#amazon-mechanical-turk CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:gemini-omni-flash-preview@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261001 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Gemini Omni Flash Preview shuts down DESCRIPTION:Google's text-and-image-to-video model shipped June 30\, 2026 and was deprecated on August 27\, the day gemini-omni-1.1-flash went GA . Shutdown September 30 β€” a 92-day life\, with the successor announced and the death date set in the same changelog entry. Replacement: gemini -omni-1.1-flash. Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#gemini-omni-flash-preview CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:google-gemini-2-5-flash-image-nano-banana@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261002 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261003 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ("Nano Banana") shuts down DESCRIPTION:The image model that went viral as 'Nano Banana' and briefly made Gemini the #1 free iPhone app shuts down exactly one year after rel ease\, to the day. Google's officially recommended replacement\, gemini- 3.1-flash-image-preview\, was itself shut down in June 2026. The migrati on target is dead\; the model isn't yet. Replacement: gemini-3.1-flash-i mage-preview (already retired). Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api /docs/deprecations URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#google-gemini-2-5-flash-image-nan o-banana CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:azure-openai-gpt-4-1-4-1-mini-4-1-nano@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261015 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Azure OpenAI GPT-4.1\, 4.1 mini & 4.1 nano shuts down DESCRIPTION:GPT-4.1 launched April 2025 as OpenAI's 'best model for codin g' with a 1M-token context window. Azure retires it\, plus mini and nano \, after 18 months. Fine-tuned deployments on the same bases get a one-y ear stay of execution. Replacement: gpt-5 / gpt-5-mini / gpt-5-nano. Sou rce: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/openai/concepts/ model-retirements URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#azure-openai-gpt-4-1-4-1-mini-4-1 -nano CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sora-2-on-azure-openai-foundry@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261016 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Sora 2 on Azure OpenAI / Foundry shuts down DESCRIPTION:Sora outlives its maker's own shutdown by three weeks: Micros oft pushed the Azure retirement from September 15 to October 15\, with n o replacement. OpenAI's own Sora API dies September 24. The last place t o generate a Sora video will be a Microsoft data centre. Replacement: No ne listed. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/opena i/concepts/model-retirement-schedule URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#sora-2-on-azure-openai-foundry CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:gemini-2-5-pro-flash-flash-lite-vertex-ai@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261016 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261017 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Gemini 2.5 Pro / Flash / Flash Lite (Vertex AI) shuts down DESCRIPTION:Google's entire Gemini 2.5 family retires on Vertex AI no ear lier than October 16\, 2026. Note this is Vertex-only β€” the Gemini Dev eloper API still lists no shutdown date for the same three models. Repla cement: Gemini 3.x series. Source: https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex- ai/generative-ai/docs/deprecations URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#gemini-2-5-pro-flash-flash-lite-v ertex-ai CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:azure-openai-o-series-o1-o3-o4-mini-o3-pro@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261022 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Azure OpenAI o-series (o1\, o3\, o4-mini\, o3-pro) shuts dow n DESCRIPTION:Azure deletes an entire generation of reasoning models in und er 90 days: o3-mini October 1\, o4-mini October 16\, o1/o1-pro/o3 Octobe r 21\, codex-mini November 15\, o3-pro December 17. Four have no named r eplacement β€” Microsoft declares one only 90 to 120 days out\, because 'declaring a replacement too early risks directing customers to a model that is no longer the best available option.' Replacement: gpt-5.6-sol ( partial)\; several unnamed. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/az ure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#azure-openai-o-series-o1-o3-o4-mi ni-o3-pro CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:vertex-ai-open-model-maas-13-models@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261022 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Vertex AI Open-Model MaaS (13 models) shuts down DESCRIPTION:Google Cloud drops managed serving for 13 open models on Octo ber 21 β€” DeepSeek V3.1\, GLM-5 and 4.7\, gpt-oss-20b\, Kimi K2 Thinkin g\, Llama 3.3 70B\, MiniMax M2\, two e5 embedding models and four Qwen3 variants. You can still run them\; you just have to host them yourself. Replacement: Self-deploy the weights from Model Garden. Source: https:// docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/deprecatio ns/open-models URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#vertex-ai-open-model-maas-13-mode ls CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:openai-fine-tuning-new-orgs@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261024 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ OpenAI Fine-tuning (new orgs) shuts down DESCRIPTION:New organizations can no longer create fine-tuning jobs. The first wave executed on schedule July 23\, 2026\; the second takes every remaining fine-tuned model β€” ft-gpt-3.5-turbo\, ft-gpt-4\, ft-gpt-4.1- nano\, ft-babbage-002 and ft-davinci-002 β€” on October 23. Replacement: Prompt caching / system prompts. Source: https://developers.openai.com/ api/docs/deprecations URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#openai-fine-tuning-new-orgs CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:openai-gpt-4-gpt-4-turbo-gpt-3-5-turbo-the-o-series@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261024 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ OpenAI GPT-4\, GPT-4 Turbo\, GPT-3.5 Turbo & the o-series sh uts down DESCRIPTION:One date kills three eras. On October 23\, OpenAI removes gpt -3.5-turbo (the engine that launched ChatGPT)\, gpt-4 and gpt-4-0613 (th e model that defined 2023)\, and its entire first generation of reasonin g models β€” o1\, o1-pro\, o3-mini\, o4-mini β€” plus gpt-4o-2024-05-13 and gpt-image-1. Every fine-tune built on them dies the same day. Sevent een table rows\, six months' notice. Replacement: gpt-5.5 / gpt-5.4-mini / gpt-5.4-nano / gpt-image-2. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api /docs/deprecations URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#openai-gpt-4-gpt-4-turbo-gpt-3-5- turbo-the-o-series CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:vertex-ai-extensions@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261127 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ Vertex AI Extensions shuts down DESCRIPTION:Google's managed tool-calling framework for Gemini\, deprecat ed with the standard six-month window and switched off after November 26 \, 2026. The replacement is the Agent Platform β€” the third name for th is idea in as many years. Replacement: Agent Platform. Source: https://d ocs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/deprecations URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#vertex-ai-extensions CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:openai-legacy-gpt-image-models@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261202 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ OpenAI Legacy GPT Image Models shuts down DESCRIPTION:Older GPT Image model snapshots were flagged for removal from the API on December 1\, 2026\, just months after they replaced DALLΒ·E. The endpoint that buried DALLΒ·E is already on its own deprecation cloc k. Replacement: GPT Image 1.5. Source: https://platform.openai.com/docs/ deprecations URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#openai-legacy-gpt-image-models CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:openai-gpt-5-original-snapshots-o3-o3-pro@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261212 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ OpenAI GPT-5 (original snapshots)\, o3 & o3-pro shuts down DESCRIPTION:The original GPT-5 launch snapshots β€” gpt-5-2025-08-07 and its mini\, nano and pro siblings β€” plus o3 and o3-pro shut down Decemb er 11. GPT-5 launched in August 2025 as the 'PhD-level expert' model. It s launch snapshot gets 16 months before it starts returning errors. Repl acement: gpt-5.6-sol / gpt-5.6-terra / gpt-5.6-luna. Source: https://dev elopers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#openai-gpt-5-original-snapshots-o 3-o3-pro CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:openai-realtime-audio-model-family@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270121 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ OpenAI Realtime & Audio Model Family shuts down DESCRIPTION:OpenAI put its entire GA voice stack on death row: gpt-realti me\, gpt-audio\, gpt-realtime-mini\, gpt-audio-mini and all four gpt-4o audio/realtime variants. gpt-realtime and gpt-audio went GA in August 20 25 β€” the models that headlined 'production-ready voice agents' get rou ghly 17 months. OpenAI is skipping its own intermediate generation: the 1.5 series shipped in February 2026 and the named replacement is already 2.1. Replacement: gpt-realtime-2.1 / gpt-realtime-2.1-mini / gpt-audio- 1.5. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#openai-realtime-audio-model-famil y CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:openai-whisper-1-gpt-4o-transcribe@killedbyai.net DTSTAMP:20260912T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270227 SUMMARY:πŸͺ¦ OpenAI Whisper-1 & GPT-4o Transcribe shuts down DESCRIPTION:On August 26 OpenAI deprecated whisper-1 β€” its original spe ech-to-text API from March 2023 β€” together with gpt-4o-transcribe\, gp t-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize\, the last of which s hipped in October 2025. All four die February 26\, 2027. The open-source Whisper weights are unaffected\; the hosted endpoint that made them a p roduct is not. Replacement: gpt-transcribe / gpt-live-transcribe. Source : https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations#2026-08-26-transcr iption-models URL:https://killedbyai.net/coming-soon/#openai-whisper-1-gpt-4o-transcrib e CATEGORIES:AI shutdown END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR