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GitHub Models has been retired, and the error message about a scheduled retirement brownout is stale because the retirement is already complete.

The author missed the news of GitHub Models' retirement until a GitHub Actions run failed, producing an already-outdated brownout message. ✦ AI generated

Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-09 · original ↗

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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 already stale, because the retirement has been completed.

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