# deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b

Calls to the model deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b on SambaNova Cloud stopped working on March 20, 2026.

On March 20, 2026, SambaNova Cloud will retire model deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b. Calls using this model will fail after that date.

## What to use instead

Move to gpt-oss-120b, recommended by SambaNova.

- API: SambaNova Cloud (api.sambanova.ai)
- Model: deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: March 20, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/deprecations)
- Verified: October 26, 2026, against SambaNova Cloud's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/sambanova-cloud/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b/

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent