Changelog

Welcome to the Groq Changelog, where you can follow ongoing developments to our API.

April 5, 2025

• Shipped Meta's Llama 4 models. See more on our models page.

April 4, 2025

• Shipped new console home page. See yours here.

March 26, 2025

• Shipped text-to-speech models playai-tts and playai-tts-arabic. See more on our models page.

March 13, 2025

• Batch processing is 50% off now until end of April 2025! Learn how to submit a batch job here.

March 11, 2025

• Added support for word level timestamps. See more in our speech-to-text docs.
• Added llms.txt and llms-full.txt files to make it easy for you to use our docs as context for models and AI agents.

March 5, 2025

• Shipped qwen-qwq-32b. See more on our models page.

February 25, 2025

• Shipped mistral-saba-24b. See more on our models page.

February 13, 2025

• Shipped qwen-2.5-coder-32b. See more on our models page.

February 10, 2025

• Shipped qwen-2.5-32b. See more on our models page.
• Shipped deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b. See more on our models page.

February 5, 2025

• Updated integrations to include Agno.

February 3, 2025

• Shipped deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-specdec. See more on our models page.

January 29, 2025

• Added support for tool use and JSON mode for deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b.

January 26, 2025

• Released deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b. See more on our models page.

January 9, 2025

• Added batch API docs.

January 7, 2025

• Updated integrations pages to include quick start guides and additional resources.
• Updated deprecations for Llama 3.1 and Llama 3.0 Tool Use models.
• Updated speech docs

December 17, 2024

• Updated integrations to include CrewAI.
• Updated deprecations page to include gemma-7b-it.

December 6, 2024

• Released llama-3.3-70b-versatile and llama-3.3-70b-specdec. See more on our models page.

November 15, 2024

• Released llama-3.1-70b-specdec model for customers. See more on our models page.

October 18, 2024

• Deprecated llava-v1.5-7b-4096-preview model.

October 9, 2024

• Released whisper-large-v3-turbo model. See more on our models page.
• Released llama-3.2-90b-vision-preview model. See more on our models page.
• Updated integrations to include xRx.

September 27, 2024

• Released llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview model. See more on our models page.
• Updated Integrations to include JigsawStack.

September 25, 2024

• Released llama-3.2-1b-preview model. See more on our models page.
• Released llama-3.2-3b-preview model. See more on our models page.
• Released llama-3.2-90b-text-preview model. See more on our models page.

September 24, 2024

• Revamped tool use documentation with in-depth explanations and code examples.
• Upgraded code box style and design.

September 3, 2024

• Released llava-v1.5-7b-4096-preview model.
• Updated Integrations to include E2B.

August 20, 2024

• Released 'distil-whisper-large-v3-en' model. See more on our models page.

August 8, 2024

• Moved 'llama-3.1-405b-reasoning' from preview to offline due to overwhelming demand. Stay tuned for updates on availability!

August 1, 2024

• Released 'llama-guard-3-8b' model. See more on our models page.

July 23, 2024

• Released Llama 3.1 suite of models in preview ('llama-3.1-8b-instant', 'llama-3.1-70b-versatile', 'llama-3.1-405b-reasoning'). Learn more in our blog post.

July 16, 2024

• Released 'Llama3-groq-70b-tool-use' and 'Llama3-groq-8b-tool-use' models in

  preview, learn more in our blog post.

June 24, 2024

• Released 'whisper-large-v3' model.

May 8, 2024

• Released 'whisper-large-v3' model as a private beta.

April 19, 2024

• Released 'llama3-70b-8192' and 'llama3-8b-8192' models.

April 10, 2024

• Upgraded Gemma to gemma-1.1-7b-it.

April 3, 2024

• Tool use released in beta.

March 28, 2024

• Launched the Groq API Cookbook.

March 21, 2024

• Added JSON mode and streaming to Playground.

March 8, 2024

• Released gemma-7b-it model.

March 6, 2024

• Released JSON mode, added seed parameter.

Feb 26, 2024

• Released Python and Javascript LlamaIndex integrations.

Feb 21, 2024

• Released Python and Javascript Langchain integrations.

Feb 16, 2024

• Beta launch
• Released GroqCloud Javascript SDK.

Feb 7, 2024

• Private Beta launch
• Released llama2-70b and mixtral-8x7b models.
• Released GroqCloud Python SDK.