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deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b

Stopped working

Calls to the model deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b on Groq stopped working on October 2, 2025.

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

Move to openai/gpt-oss-120b. llama-3.3-70b-versatile, also named, stopped working on 2026-08-16.

Facts

API
Groq api.groq.com
Model
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b
Kind
Model retirement
Takes effect
October 2, 2025
Calls after that day
Fail
Source
Deprecations page
Last updated

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