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deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-specdec

Stopped working

Calls to the model deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-specdec on Groq stopped working on March 24, 2025.

What to use instead of deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-specdec

Move to openai/gpt-oss-120b. deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b, named first, stopped working on 2025-10-02. deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b, named first, stopped working on 2025-04-14.

Facts

API
Groq api.groq.com
Model
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-specdec
Kind
Model retirement
Takes effect
March 24, 2025
Calls after that day
Fail
Source
Deprecations page
Last updated

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