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Azure AI Language: retirement of eight features
Retirement date for eight Azure AI Language features, including Key Phrase Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, CLU, Custom Question Answering and Summarization: 31 Mar 2029. After that date, requests to these features return errors.
Retires , 31 Mar 2029
What breaks
Eight Azure AI Language features are retired on the retirement date: Key Phrase Extraction, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Custom Text Classification, Conversational Language Understanding (CLU), Custom Question Answering (CQA), Orchestration Workflow, Summarization (extractive and abstractive, for documents and conversations), and Entity Linking. After the retirement date, requests to these features return errors. The related authoring and runtime capabilities in Language Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and the REST APIs are no longer available. Other Azure AI Language features, including Language Detection, PII Detection, Text Analytics for Health, Prebuilt NER, and Custom NER, continue to be supported.
What to do
Plan migrations ahead of the retirement date using supported alternatives in Microsoft Foundry.
Replacement
Not stated by vendor.
Sources
- Official sourceazure.microsoft.comOfficial
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