Crawler: 62 AI models retire in 90 days, 48 lack successors

A developer ran a crawler over the deprecation pages of 15 AI vendors and counted 62 models scheduled for removal between September 24 and December 22, 2026. 48 name a successor, but only 7 carry an announcement date, and 34 deprecations have no shutdown date at all.

• 62 models scheduled for removal between Sep 24 and Dec 22, 2026
• 48 of 62 name a successor, only 7 state an announcement date
• 34 models are deprecated with no shutdown date announced
• Google removed the Oct 16, 2026 date for gemini-2.5 with no notice