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Retirement of Language Understanding (LUIS) Overview Language Understanding (LUIS) is a cloud-based conversational AI service that applies machine-learning intelligence to predict the meaning of natural language text and extract relevant information[3]. However, there is no evidence that the retirement date of LUIS has been extended to October 31, 2025. The official retirement date remains October 1, 2025[1][3]. Retirement Details Retirement Date : LUIS will be retired on October 1, 2025[1][3]. New Resource Creation : Starting April 1, 2023, users cannot create new LUIS resources[1][3]. Existing Resources : Existing LUIS resources and applications will continue to receive full support until the retirement date[1]. Migration Recommendations Microsoft recommends migrating LUIS applications to Conversational Language Understanding (CLU), a capability of Azure Cognitive Services for Language, to benefit from continued support and multilingual capabilities[1][3]. However, CLU doe...

Bing Search APIs will be retired on  August 11, 2025. Any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the product will no longer be available for usage or new customer signup. Note that this retirement will apply to part

In September 2022, we announced that Language Understanding (LUIS) would be retired on October 1, 2025. Based on feedback from you, we are extending the retirement date to October 31, 2025, to give you more time to plan for your migration. On October 31,

Azure AI Image Analysis 4.0 Preview API Retirement Summary Retirement Date : March 31, 2025[1][5]. Scope : The following preview API versions will be retired: 2022-07-31-preview 2022-10-12-preview 2023-02-01-preview 2023-04-01-preview 2023-07-01-preview v4.0-preview.1 [1]. Key Impacted Features : Discontinued functionalities : Model customization , background removal , and product recognition (removed from Azure AI Studio as of January 10, 2025)[1]. Product recognition preview API (explicitly cited for retirement in multiple sources)[2][4]. Migration Path : Transition to Image Analysis 4.0 GA API or Azure AI Custom Vision (GA) for model customization and object detection[1][2]. Recommendations : Act Before March 31, 2025 : API calls to preview versions will fail post-retirement[1][5]. Benefits of GA API : Features like multimodal embedding , synchronous OCR , people detection , smart cropping , and dense captions are available in the GA ...

Retirement of Azure AI Image Analysis 4.0 Preview APIs On March 31, 2025 , the Azure AI Image Analysis 4.0 Preview APIs will be retired. This retirement affects several features, including: Model customization Background removal Product recognition Custom Image Classification and Custom Object Detection To ensure continuity, users are advised to migrate their workloads to the Image Analysis 4.0 GA API , which offers enhanced features like multimodal embedding, synchronous OCR, people detection, image tagging, smart cropping, caption, dense caption, and image object detection[1][4][5]. Impact and Migration Recommendations Impact on Features: Product Recognition and Custom Features : These will no longer be available in the preview APIs and have been removed from the Azure Studio experience as of January 10, 2025[1]. COCO File Compatibility : Users relying on COCO files for training data in product recognition will need to adapt to the Custom Vision service, as it does not ...

On March 31, 2025, the Image Analysis 4.0 Preview APIs will be retired. Before that date, you’ll need to migrate your Azure Image Analysis workloads to the Image Analysis 4.0 GA API. We encourage you to make the transition sooner to gain access to improve