Time to Bail · Boarding pass
Yes.
No new fine-tuning jobs from January 6, 2027. Tuned models keep working until their base model ends.[1]
Bail means: it is ending, or getting much worse, for this group. Leave before the date.
OpenAI stops new self-serve fine-tuning jobs on January 6, 2027
From January 6, 2027, you can no longer start new fine-tuning jobs on OpenAI's self-serve platform. This is for active customers. Fine-tuned models keep working until their base model shuts down.
One email with the first steps. Nothing else.
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Note the base model of each one. A tuned model stops when its base model shuts down.
Start any job you still need before January 6. After that, new jobs are not possible.
OpenAI does not name a replacement on its deprecations page. Keep your training data ready.
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| No new fine-tuning jobs from | January 6, 2027[1] |
|---|---|
| Who it hits on that date | Active existing customers[1] |
| First step | May 7, 2026: no training for organizations that had not run fine-tuning before[1] |
| Second step | July 2, 2026: no new jobs for organizations with no fine-tuned inference in the past 60 days[1] |
| Fine-tuned models | Inference keeps working until the base model is deprecated[1] |
| Older fine-tuned snapshots | Fine-tuned GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 snapshots shut down January 14, 2027, with their base models[1] |
| Replacement | Not named on OpenAI's deprecations page[1] |
| Announced | May 7, 2026[1] |
| Teams that still train models | Cannot create new jobs after January 6, 2027[1] |
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Time to bail on OpenAI self-serve fine-tuning: new jobs? Yes. No new fine-tuning jobs from January 6, 2027. Tuned models keep working until their base model ends.
On our scale this is Bail: it is ending, or getting much worse, for this group. Move your work out now.
From January 6, 2027, you can no longer start new fine-tuning jobs on OpenAI's self-serve platform. This is for active customers. Fine-tuned models keep working until their base model shuts down.
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This is a full shutdown, not a pause. When the service closes, files and lists you did not save may be gone.
Do not wait for a last reminder email. Those emails are often late, and some never come.
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Teams that still train models: Cannot create new jobs after January 6, 2027.
Export is fairly easy here, so the move itself is not the hard part. Picking the right new tool is.
The date to remember is January 6, 2027. After that, it may be too late to save what you need.
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