The AI market is extraordinarily skewed towards large players. It's hard for a business to support 100s of 6 figure USD sized accounts next to 1-2 9 figure accounts.
Cloud service providers deprecate services all the time. To be honest, why are you still on llama 3.3 70B in January 2026? Are you in the Strava AI team?
Yes, every single Enterprise customer that was unfortunate enough to be subscribed to LLama 3.3 has had their plans terminated. Everyone would have gladly migrated to OSS or something, but they never gave us the option.
my guess is they are aiming for the high rollers and not shrimp like you even though you were "Enterprise". I worked for a company that wanted to get rid of the lower tier customers to focus the money makers.
I had the second highest tier. But yes, that makes sense.
Regardless, I just don't see them as a stable business partner. I know the same cycle will continue with the next round of deprecation. Perhaps the highest tier enterprise users will form a different opinion.
I noticed this behavior when the very popular Qwen models suddenly were migrated to GLM
I don't know how many times this has happened in the last 12 months but I'd guess like 2-3 times?
Surely this isn’t how it was supposed to happen.
Is their runway money running out?
The AI market is extraordinarily skewed towards large players. It's hard for a business to support 100s of 6 figure USD sized accounts next to 1-2 9 figure accounts.
Potentially.
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Cloud service providers deprecate services all the time. To be honest, why are you still on llama 3.3 70B in January 2026? Are you in the Strava AI team?
Do cloud providers kick you off the platform and terminate your account when they deprecate models too?
Did they really do that?
Yes, every single Enterprise customer that was unfortunate enough to be subscribed to LLama 3.3 has had their plans terminated. Everyone would have gladly migrated to OSS or something, but they never gave us the option.
my guess is they are aiming for the high rollers and not shrimp like you even though you were "Enterprise". I worked for a company that wanted to get rid of the lower tier customers to focus the money makers.
I had the second highest tier. But yes, that makes sense. Regardless, I just don't see them as a stable business partner. I know the same cycle will continue with the next round of deprecation. Perhaps the highest tier enterprise users will form a different opinion.