Obituaries · Cohere
embed-english-v2.0, ?–2026
Cohere model switched off
embed-english-v2.0, a Cohere model that turned sentences into numbers, quietly, millions of times a day, was switched off on April 4, 2026. Code that still calls it will find out the hard way.
It is survived by embed-v4.0, who is already doing the job.
| Model ID | embed-english-v2.0 |
|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere deprecations page |
| Shut down | April 4, 2026 |
| Successor | embed-v4.0 |
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Replace the string. Search your code for embed-english-v2.0 and swap it for embed-v4.0, or paste a repo into Model Graveyard Check to find every dead model at once.
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