Deprecation notice: upcoming model shutdowns in 2026

This is terrible news. I strongly urge you not to shut down these legacy models, especially the finetuned ones that many of us spent disproportionate amounts of time tweaking to our needs. You are shutting down models that countless people have relied on and depended on for years all for the sake of “improved reliability and simplified model selection”? This is simply not a good enough reason and achieves the exact opposite in reality. The dumbing down of AI continues…