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I Published a Median Model Lifespan. Seven Weeks Later the Same Query Said 219 Days More.
Community description: On 2026-08-01 I computed how long an AI model lives, from the day it shows up to the day its vendor...
Dev.to | Oct 2, 2026 | ushiro
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A model that never gets a shutdown date never enters the average, no matter how 216 models have a published shutdown date and no arrival I can point to. Not because models and publishes end dates for them. Anthropic contributes exactly one model to a statistic about model lifespans.
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