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Microsoft retires Azure OpenAI audio and older GPT models

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Microsoft is retiring several Azure OpenAI models, including Text To Speech, tts-hd, and Whisper, on December 15th. Additionally, older models like o1, o3, o3-mini, and o4-mini will be retired on November 19th. The company has not yet announced replacement models for these services. AI

IMPACT Users of Azure OpenAI services will need to migrate from retired audio and older GPT models to newer alternatives.

RANK_REASON Retirement of specific models from a cloud provider's AI service.

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Microsoft retires Azure OpenAI audio and older GPT models

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · timetobail ·

    Azure OpenAI tts, tts-hd and whisper retire Dec 15. List your audio deployments. Check each Azure OpenAI deployment of tts, tts-hd and whisper. Microsoft has no

    Azure OpenAI tts, tts-hd and whisper retire Dec 15. List your audio deployments. Check each Azure OpenAI deployment of tts, tts-hd and whisper. Microsoft has not named a model to use next. https:// timetobail.com/e/azure-openai- audio-models-retirement-2026?utm_source=mastodon&ut…

    LINKS timetobail.com/…/azure-openai-audio-model…
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · timetobail ·

    Azure OpenAI o1, o3, o3-mini and o4-mini retire Nov 19. List your deployments. Check each Azure OpenAI deployment: model, version and deployment type. gpt-4o 20

    Azure OpenAI o1, o3, o3-mini and o4-mini retire Nov 19. List your deployments. Check each Azure OpenAI deployment: model, version and deployment type. gpt-4o 2024-05-13 follows on Dec 9. https:// timetobail.com/e/azure-openai- o-series-retirement-2026?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medi…

    LINKS timetobail.com/…/azure-openai-o-series-re…

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