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AI Engineering2026-08-31
OpenAI Quietly Shut Down the Assistants API Last Week and Gave Whisper-1 Six Months to Live. The Aug 26 Changelog Entry Just Surfaced.
The OpenAI Aug 26, 2026 changelog entry surfaced into the visible feed in the last 24 hours. It documents two operational changes: the Assistants API was hard-shut-down on Aug 26 (past tense — not deprecated), and whisper-1 / gpt-4o-transcribe / gpt-4o-mini-transcribe / gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize are deprecated with a Feb 26, 2027 shutdown date. Migration targets: Responses API + Conversations API for agent loops; gpt-transcribe (file/batch) or gpt-live-transcribe (streaming) for transcription.
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