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Foundation Model Fine-tuning

Foundation Model Fine-tuning is retired, replaced by AI Runtime (GPU serverless) (retired 2026).

Foundation Model Training Mosaic AI Model Training Foundation Model Fine-tuning AI Runtime (GPU serverless)

Databricks' managed foundation-model fine-tuning service, driven by the databricks_genai SDK, which customized a base model on your own data and registered the result to Unity Catalog.

  • It reached end of life while still officially in Public Preview - the Azure copy of its own docs carries a Public Preview region list directly beneath the end-of-life warning.
  • The whole service was a Python import away, and the thing that no longer works is precisely that import - the databricks_genai package and its UI both went dark together.
  • It outlived several of the models it existed to tune, retiring DBRX, Mistral and Mixtral from its own supported list in April 2025.

Limitations: While it ran, datasets beyond roughly 10B tokens were unsupported, continued pre-training expected 60-256MB files with anything over 1GB slowing sharply, and older base models could be dropped from the API without notice.

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Category
AI / ML
Deprecated
2026
Also known as
FMFT, databricks_genai, Databricks Model Training
Verified
2026-09-17

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