{
  "id": 8878820,
  "title": "The AI model your business runs on is being retired: the 2026 shutdown calendar",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/the-ai-model-your-business-runs-on-is-being-retired-the-2026-shutdown",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-21T08:20:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/marco_odev/the-ai-model-your-business-runs-on-is-being-retired-the-2026-shutdown-calendar-58h8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "OpenAI is set to retire various AI models in 2026, affecting businesses that rely on these models for chatbots, email classifiers, or other AI automation. The shutdown calendar includes the following dates:\n\n- 26 August 2026: Assistants API, Responses API, and Conversations API are retired, with no direct replacement mentioned.\n- 24 September 2026: Videos API, sora-2, and sora-2-pro are retired, leaving no direct replacement for video generation.\n- 28 September 2026: Older completion-style snapshots (gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002, gpt-3.5-turbo-1106) are retired, being replaced by gpt-5.6-terra.\n- 23 October 2026: gpt-3.5-turbo-0125, gpt-4-0613, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini, o4-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, and gpt-image-1 are retired, with gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-terra, and gpt-5.6-luna as the replacements.\n- 31 October 2026: Evals, Promptfoo, and other related features are retired and replaced by their respective alternatives.\n- 30 November 2026: v1/prompts API, reusable prompts, Agent Builder, Evals dashboard, and API are retired.\n- 1 December 2026: gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5, chatgpt-image-latest are retired, with gpt-image-2 as the replacement.\n- 11 December 2026: gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07, gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07, gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06, o3-2025-04-16, and o3-pro-2025-06-10 are retired, with gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-terra, and gpt-5.6-luna as the replacements.\n- 20 January 2027: gpt-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-4o-realtime and mini variants are retired, with gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-audio-1.5 as the replacements.\n- 26 February 2027: whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize are retired, with gpt-transcribe and gpt-live-transcribe as the replacements.",
  "summary": "OpenAI already shut down the Assistants API on 26 August 2026. The next cutoffs are 24 September, when it retires the Videos API and sora-2 ; 28 September, for the last legacy completion snapshots; and 23 October, for gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4 . If your business runs a chatbot, an email classifier or any AI automation that was built for you in 2023 or 2024, there is a very high chance it is wired…",
  "key_points": [
    "Assistants API, Responses API, and Conversations API retired on 26 August 2026",
    "Older completion-style snapshots retired on 28 September 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-terra",
    "gpt-3.5-turbo-0125, gpt-4-0613, and gpt-4-turbo retired on 23 October 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}