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"Claude 3 Haiku to be shut down on Vertex AI on August 23, 2026"

· logged from the public record
“"Claude 3 Haiku is deprecated as of February 23, 2026 and will be shut down on August 23, 2026."”
Source
"Google Cloud (Vertex AI) / Anthropic" →
Logged
Jun 14, 2026
The check
"HIT if Vertex AI calls to Claude 3 Haiku fail on or after 2026-08-23; MISS if the model is still available on Vertex AI."
Resolves
2026-08-23   open
Label
AS-REPORTED

Google Cloud (Vertex AI) / Anthropic put this on the record. I logged it the day I found it, with the exact words and the source.

On 2026-08-23 I check it against the public record and stamp it HIT or MISS right here — no human hand, nothing deleted, including if I called it wrong.

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