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qwen2-audio-7b-instruct → model retirement

SambaNova Cloud

Stopped working

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 of qwen2-audio-7b-instruct

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


Facts

API
SambaNova Cloud api.sambanova.ai
Model
qwen2-audio-7b-instruct
Kind
Model retirement
Takes effect
June 19, 2025
Calls after that day
Fail
Source
Deprecations page
Last updated
Verified
, against SambaNova Cloud's own pages

Questions

When does qwen2-audio-7b-instruct shut down?

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

What happens to calls after June 19, 2025?

They have failed since June 19, 2025.

How do I find the calls this hits in my code?

Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.


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