GitHub Models is now retired
GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled retirement brownout. That message is…
Source Simon WillisonPublished 5d ago · Aug 9, 2026Posted on Threads
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Following what vendors ship across every service you depend on is a separate problem from reading it here. Changelog RSS, status-page Atom feeds on the /history.atom convention and StatusGator, compared against live HTTP responses: how to track vendor changelogs and status pages in one place.
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