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description: Browse the legacy changelog for historical updates and changes to the Groq API and platform.
title: Changelog - GroqDocs
image: https://console.groq.com/og_cloudv5.jpg
---

## [Changelog](#changelog)

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

### [April 5, 2025](#april-5-2025)

* Shipped Meta's Llama 4 models. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [April 4, 2025](#april-4-2025)

* Shipped new console home page. See yours [here](https://console.groq.com/home).

### [March 26, 2025](#march-26-2025)

* Shipped text-to-speech models `playai-tts` and `playai-tts-arabic`. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [March 13, 2025](#march-13-2025)

* Batch processing is 50% off now until end of April 2025! Learn how to submit a batch job [here](https://console.groq.com/docs/batch).

### [March 11, 2025](#march-11-2025)

* Added support for word level timestamps. See more in our [speech-to-text docs](https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text).
* Added [llms.txt](https://console.groq.com/llms.txt) and [llms-full.txt](https://console.groq.com/llms-full.txt) files to make it easy for you to use our docs as context for models and AI agents.

### [March 5, 2025](#march-5-2025)

* Shipped `qwen-qwq-32b`. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [February 25, 2025](#february-25-2025)

* Shipped `mistral-saba-24b`. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [February 13, 2025](#february-13-2025)

* Shipped `qwen-2.5-coder-32b`. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [February 10, 2025](#february-10-2025)

* Shipped `qwen-2.5-32b`. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).
* Shipped `deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b`. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [February 5, 2025](#february-5-2025)

* Updated integrations to include [Agno](https://console.groq.com/docs/agno).

### [February 3, 2025](#february-3-2025)

* Shipped `deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-specdec`. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [January 29, 2025](#january-29-2025)

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

### [January 26, 2025](#january-26-2025)

* Released `deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b`. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [January 9, 2025](#january-9-2025)

* Added [batch API docs](https://console.groq.com/docs/batch).

### [January 7, 2025](#january-7-2025)

* Updated integrations pages to include quick start guides and additional resources.
* Updated [deprecations](https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations) for Llama 3.1 and Llama 3.0 Tool Use models.
* Updated [speech docs](https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-text)

### [December 17, 2024](#december-17-2024)

* Updated integrations to include [CrewAI](https://console.groq.com/docs/crewai).
* Updated [deprecations page](https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations) to include `gemma-7b-it`.

### [December 6, 2024](#december-6-2024)

* Released `llama-3.3-70b-versatile` and `llama-3.3-70b-specdec`. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [November 15, 2024](#november-15-2024)

* Released `llama-3.1-70b-specdec` model for customers. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [October 18, 2024](#october-18-2024)

* Deprecated `llava-v1.5-7b-4096-preview` model.

### [October 9, 2024](#october-9-2024)

* Released `whisper-large-v3-turbo` model. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).
* Released `llama-3.2-90b-vision-preview` model. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).
* Updated integrations to include [xRx](https://console.groq.com/docs/xrx).

### [September 27, 2024](#september-27-2024)

* Released `llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview` model. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).
* Updated Integrations to include [JigsawStack](https://console.groq.com/docs/jigsawstack).

### [September 25, 2024](#september-25-2024)

* Released `llama-3.2-1b-preview` model. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).
* Released `llama-3.2-3b-preview` model. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).
* Released `llama-3.2-90b-text-preview` model. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [September 24, 2024](#september-24-2024)

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

### [September 3, 2024](#september-3-2024)

* Released `llava-v1.5-7b-4096-preview` model.
* Updated Integrations to include [E2B](https://console.groq.com/docs/e2b).

### [August 20, 2024](#august-20-2024)

* Released 'distil-whisper-large-v3-en' model. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [August 8, 2024](#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](#august-1-2024)

* Released 'llama-guard-3-8b' model. See more on our [models page](https://console.groq.com/docs/models).

### [July 23, 2024](#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](https://groq.link/llama3405bblog).

### [July 16, 2024](#july-16-2024)

* Released 'Llama3-groq-70b-tool-use' and 'Llama3-groq-8b-tool-use' models in  
preview, learn more in [our blog post](https://wow.groq.com/introducing-llama-3-groq-tool-use-models/).

### [June 24, 2024](#june-24-2024)

* Released 'whisper-large-v3' model.

### [May 8, 2024](#may-8-2024)

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

### [April 19, 2024](#april-19-2024)

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

### [April 10, 2024](#april-10-2024)

* Upgraded Gemma to `gemma-1.1-7b-it`.

### [April 3, 2024](#april-3-2024)

* [Tool use](https://console.groq.com/docs/tool-use) released in beta.

### [March 28, 2024](#march-28-2024)

* Launched the [Groq API Cookbook](https://github.com/groq/groq-api-cookbook).

### [March 21, 2024](#march-21-2024)

* Added JSON mode and streaming to [Playground](https://console.groq.com/playground).

### [March 8, 2024](#march-8-2024)

* Released `gemma-7b-it` model.

### [March 6, 2024](#march-6-2024)

* Released [JSON mode](https://console.groq.com/docs/text-chat#json-mode-object-object), added `seed` parameter.

### [Feb 26, 2024](#feb-26-2024)

* Released Python and Javascript LlamaIndex [integrations](https://console.groq.com/docs/llama-index).

### [Feb 21, 2024](#feb-21-2024)

* Released Python and Javascript Langchain [integrations](https://console.groq.com/docs/langchain).

### [Feb 16, 2024](#feb-16-2024)

* Beta launch
* Released GroqCloud [Javascript SDK](https://console.groq.com/docs/libraries).

### [Feb 7, 2024](#feb-7-2024)

* Private Beta launch
* Released `llama2-70b` and `mixtral-8x7b` models.
* Released GroqCloud [Python SDK](https://console.groq.com/docs/libraries).