# qwen2-audio-7b-instruct

Calls to the model qwen2-audio-7b-instruct on SambaNova Cloud stopped working on June 19, 2025.

On June 19, 2025, SambaNova Cloud will retire model qwen2-audio-7b-instruct. Calls using this model will fail after that date.

## What to use instead

The previously named replacement, whisper-large-v3, stopped working on March 9, 2026. No replacement that holds is named yet.

- API: SambaNova Cloud (api.sambanova.ai)
- Model: qwen2-audio-7b-instruct
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: June 19, 2025
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model qwen2-audio-7b-instruct`
- 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/qwen2-audio-7b-instruct/

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