DeepSeek has extended V4 Flash with an experimental multimodal API model. Builders can send images by URL, base64 or Files API, reuse uploaded files across requests, and pay the existing V4 Flash token rates; the original 304B text weights remain separately available under MIT for self-hosting.
OpenAI’s Assistants API is scheduled to shut down on August 26, 2026. Builders still using Assistants, Threads, Messages or Runs should move production paths to the Responses API now and test state, tool and file-search behavior before the cutoff.
OpenAI will shut down the Assistants API on August 26, 2026. Existing integrations need to move from Assistants, Threads and Runs to Prompts, Conversations and Responses.