Hi everyone!

I've been using Groq for the better part of a year for my SAAS and I just got notified via email that distil-whisper-large-v3-en (speech-to-text model) is unexpectedly being depreciated next month. 

This was a cheap and great transcription model for my purposes. The email recommended switching to the already existing whisper-large-v3-turbo model which is double the price.

Is anyone else here going to be affected by the depreciation? I’m wondering why it was depreciated in the first place as it was not replaced by an equivalent, similarly priced model. If it was too expensive for Groq to host, why didn’t they just increase the price a bit instead of removing it entirely? I’m at a loss here.

Let me know your thoughts or if you have any insight. Thanks!

- Mark