moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct Deprecation
Deprecation of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct. Shutdown on 2025-10-10. Recommended replacement: openai/gpt-oss-120b.
Groq changelog: October 2025
3 releases from to
Everything Groq shipped in October 2025, collected from official Groq sources. Each entry is dated and links to the page it came from.
October 2025 at a glance
October 2025 was Groq's busiest month of the 7 we had tracked by then: 3 releases, about 2.3× its monthly average of 1. That was 3 releases more than September 2025. Every release this month was Model.
Releases
3
+3 vs September 2025
Rank of 7 months
1st
Average 1.3 a month
Most shipped
Model
3 releases
Notable Groq launches in October 2025
- Model
moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct Deprecation
Deprecation of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct. Shutdown on 2025-10-10. Recommended replacement: openai/gpt-oss-120b.
Source: Groq Docs - Model
gemma2-9b-it Deprecation
Deprecation of gemma2-9b-it. Shutdown on 2025-10-08. Recommended replacement: llama-3.1-8b-instant.
Source: Groq Docs - Model
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b Deprecation
Deprecation of deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b. Shutdown on 2025-10-02. Recommended replacements: llama-3.3-70b-versatile or openai/gpt-oss-120b.
Source: Groq Docs
All Groq releases in October 2025
Newest first. Each entry links to the official page it came from.
October 20253 releases
gemma2-9b-it Deprecation
Deprecation of gemma2-9b-it. Shutdown on 2025-10-08. Recommended replacement: llama-3.1-8b-instant.
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b Deprecation
Deprecation of deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b. Shutdown on 2025-10-02. Recommended replacements: llama-3.3-70b-versatile or openai/gpt-oss-120b.
Where October 2025 sits
Groq releases per month, for October 2025 and the 6 months before it. A taller bar means more releases that month; the dated entries for each month are on its own page.
Other companies in October 2025
12 of the companies we track shipped in October 2025; Groq ranks 5th by number of releases.
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