Is gpt-3.5-turbo-16k being deprecated?

By default the gpt-3.5-turbo models has been have been coming with 16k context since the release of gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 which itself has 16k context length.

2023-11-06: Chat model updates

On November 6th, 2023, we announced the release of an updated GPT-3.5-Turbo model (which now comes by default with 16k context) along with deprecation of gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 and gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613. As of June 17, 2024, only existing users of these models will be able to continue using them.

The depreciation docs show the shutdown date of the following gpt-3.5-turbo models:

SHUTDOWN DATE DEPRECATED MODEL DEPRECATED MODEL PRICE RECOMMENDED REPLACEMENT
2024-09-13 gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 $1.50 / 1M input tokens + $2.00 / 1M output tokens gpt-3.5-turbo
2024-09-13 gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613 $3.00 / 1M input tokens + $4.00 / 1M output tokens gpt-3.5-turbo

It’s already recommended by by OpenAI to migrate to gpt-4o-mini if you’re still using the gpt-3.5-turbo models, because it’s more economic and powerful.

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