> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://sambanova-systems.mintlify.site/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # SambaCloud release notes Release notes for SambaCloud, including new features, enhancements, and fixes. *** ## October 2025 **Release Date:** October 7, 2025 ### New features and enhancements **API Reference Documentation Upgrade** Upgraded the API Reference documentation with a fully automated, Swagger-style interface that dynamically syncs with the OpenAPI specification. * Interactive, auto-generated API documentation with full model definitions. * Real-time updates to stay aligned with the latest OpenAPI spec. * Up-to-date usage examples in Python and TypeScript, powered by the official SambaNova SDKs. *** ## June 2025 **Release Date:** June 17, 2025 ### New features and enhancements **Japanese Language Support** Added Japanese language support for SambaNova documentation. * Go to the [SambaNova documentation homepage](https://docs.sambanova.ai/). * Open the language dropdown menu and select Japanese. *** ## May 2025 **Release Date:** May 28, 2025 ### New features and enhancements **AWS Marketplace Integration** SambaCloud is now available as a SaaS offering on AWS Marketplace. * Subscribe using your AWS account and streamline billing through AWS. * PrivateLink support for secure, low-latency connections between your AWS VPC and SambaCloud—no public internet exposure. * Fast onboarding with models like Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1 671B, and Whisper. * Up to 10x faster inference vs. GPUs with SambaNova's RDU architecture. * Privacy-first architecture: SambaNova never stores your data. * Support for fine-tuned model deployment without code changes. See [AWS Marketplace](/en/integrations/aws-marketplace) integration document for more information. **DeepSeek-V3-0324 Function Calling Support** **Release Date:** May 6, 2025 Added function calling support for DeepSeek-V3-0324, enabling more dynamic and programmable interactions by allowing you to invoke external functions directly through the model's outputs. See [Function calling](/en/features/function-calling) for more information. *** ## April 2025 ### New features and enhancements **New Models** * **Qwen3-32B** (April 29, 2025) * Added as a Preview model. High-capacity, multilingual LLM with strong performance across question answering, summarization, reasoning, and coding. * Available via Playground and API. * **Whisper-Large-V3** (April 18, 2025) * OpenAI's latest large-scale automatic speech recognition (ASR) model with enhanced transcription accuracy, improved multilingual support, and better robustness against noisy audio. * Available via API. * **Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct** (April 9, 2025) * 400B parameter mixture-of-experts model with 17B active parameters and 128 experts. * Added as a Preview model. Competitive with Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and Mistral 3.1. * Available via Playground and API. * **Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct** (April 7, 2025) * 109B parameter mixture-of-experts model with 17B active parameters and 16 experts. * Added as a Preview model. Competitive with Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Mistral 3.1. * Available via Playground and API. **Llama-4-Maverick Image Input Support** **Release Date:** April 16, 2025 Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct now supports image input functionality with up to two images as context alongside text prompts. Available via Playground and API. ### Deprecations **Release Date:** April 14, 2025 The following models have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal from active endpoints: * Llama-3.1-Swallow-70B-Instruct-v0.3 * Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-405B * Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct * Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct * Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct * Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct * Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct See [Model Deprecations](/en/models/deprecations) for guidance on alternatives. *** ## March 2025 ### New features and enhancements **New Models** * **DeepSeek-V3-0324** (March 27, 2025) * First open-source non-reasoning model that outperforms proprietary non-reasoning models. * Major boost in reasoning performance, stronger front-end development skills, and smarter tool-use capabilities. * Added as a Preview model. Available via Playground and API. * **E5-Mistral-7B-Instruct** (March 20, 2025) * Embedding model with Mistral architecture backbone. * Recommended for English use. Available via API. * See [Embeddings capabilities](/en/features/embeddings) and [endpoint documentation](https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/api-reference/embeddings/create-embeddings). * **QwQ-32B** (March 6, 2025) * State-of-the-art reasoning model from Alibaba Qwen team. * Delivers comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1's 671B with far fewer parameters. * Integrates advanced agent-related features for critical thinking and external tool usage. * **Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.3** and **Llama-3.1-Swallow-70B-Instruct-v0.3** (March 5, 2025) * Japanese-optimized language models developed through continual pre-training of Meta's Llama 3.1. * Trained on 200B tokens from diverse sources including web corpora, technical content, and multilingual Wikipedia. **DeepSeek-R1 Production Release** **Release Date:** March 18, 2025 DeepSeek-R1 transitioned from preview to production model with increased context length to 16k tokens. Available via Playground and API. ### API improvements and fixes **Model List Endpoint** **Release Date:** March 18, 2025 Added the [model list endpoint](https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/api-reference/models/get-environments-available-model-list-metadata) that provides information about currently available models in SambaCloud. **Context Length Increases** * **DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B** (March 13, 2025): Increased to 128k tokens. *** ## February 2025 ### New features and enhancements **New Models** * **DeepSeek-R1** (February 13, 2025) * 671B parameter MoE model with performance comparable to OpenAI's o1 across mathematics, coding, and reasoning. * Added as a Preview model. SambaCloud delivers the fastest DeepSeek-R1 deployment in the world. * **Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-405B** (February 4, 2025) * Open-source model from Allen Institute for AI (AI2) that performs better than DeepSeek-V3. * Trained using Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). * Competitive with or superior to GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3, with notable advantage in safety benchmarks. * **DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B** (January 30, 2025) * Fine-tuned on Llama 3.3 70B using samples generated by DeepSeek-R1. * Outperforms GPT-4o, o1-mini, and Claude-3.5-Sonnet across AIME, MATH-500, GPQA, and LiveCodeBench. **Context Length Increases** * **Llama-3.3-70B** (February 25, 2025): Increased to 128k tokens. Available as production model. * **DeepSeek-R1** (February 21, 2025): Increased to 8k tokens. Available as preview model. For API access and higher rate limits for DeepSeek-R1, please complete [this form](https://sambanova.ai/waitlist) to join the waitlist. *** ## December 2024 ### New features and enhancements **New Models** * **Llama 3.3 70B** (December 11, 2024) * Delivers comparable performance to Llama 3.1 405B. * Competes closely with OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini Pro 1.5. * **QwQ 32B Preview** (December 11, 2024) * Experimental reasoning model from Alibaba's Qwen team with 32.5B parameters. * Excels in mathematics and programming: 65.2% on GPQA, 50.0% on AIME, 90.6% on MATH-500, 50.0% on LiveCodeBench. * **Qwen2.5 72B** (December 5, 2024) * 72B-parameter model trained on 18T tokens. Supports context lengths up to 128k tokens. * Supports 29+ languages including English, Chinese, French, and Spanish. * **Qwen2.5 Coder 32B** (December 5, 2024) * 32B-parameter model tailored for code-related tasks across 92 programming languages. * HumanEval score of 92.7%, matching GPT-4o coding capability. * **Llama Guard 3 8B** (December 5, 2024) * Fine-tuned for content safety classification, aligning with 14 MLCommons standardized hazards taxonomy. **Context Length Increases** * **Llama 3.2 1B**: Increased from 4k to 16k. * **Llama 3.1 70B**: Increased from 64k to 128k. * **Llama 3.1 405B**: Increased from 8k to 16k. *** ## October 2024 ### New features and enhancements **New Models** * **Llama 3.2 11B and 90B** (October 29, 2024) * Multimodality support for text and image inputs. * **Llama 3.2 1B and 3B** (October 1, 2024) * Available to all tiers at the fastest inference speed. **Function Calling** **Release Date:** October 29, 2024 Added function calling API enabling dynamic, agentic workflows by allowing the model to suggest and select function calls based on user input. **Multimodality in API and Playground** **Release Date:** October 29, 2024 Interact with multimodal models directly through the Inference API (OpenAI compatible) and Playground for seamless text and image processing. **Python and Gradio Code Samples** **Release Date:** October 29, 2024 New code samples for faster prototyping and reduced setup time. ### API improvements and fixes **Automatic Sequence Length Routing** **Release Date:** October 10, 2024 Automatic routing based on sequence length—no need to change model names to specify different sequence lengths. **Context Length Increases** * **Llama 3.1 8B** (October 10, 2024): Increased from 8k to 16k. * **Llama 3.1 70B** (October 10, 2024): Increased from 8k to 64k. **Performance Improvements** Improved performance for Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models. ### User experience improvements * **How to Use API** guide with example curl code for text and image inputs. * Streamlined access to updated code snippets. * New **Clear Chat** option in Playground. * New UI components with tool tips. ### Updated AI starter kits * **Multimodal Retriever**: Chart, image, and figure understanding with advanced retrieval combining visual and textual data. * **Llama-3.1-Instruct-o1**: Enhanced reasoning with Llama-3.1-405B, hosted on Hugging Face Spaces. *** ## September 2024 **Release Date:** September 10, 2024 ### New features and enhancements **SambaCloud Public Launch** * Public launch of the [SambaCloud portal, API](/en/get-started/quickstart) and the [community](https://community.sambanova.ai/c/discussion/18). * Access to [Llama 3.1 8B, 70B, and 405B](/en/models/sambacloud-models) at full precision and 10x faster inference compared to GPUs. * Launched with two tiers: [free and enterprise (paid)](https://cloud.sambanova.ai/pricing).