I’m increasingly concerned about the future (or lack thereof) for the assistants API. However, I’ve been building a platform based on it. At the center of the platform is a variety of uniquely tailored (personality and knowledge as defined in their instructions) assistants. If you had to recommend …

Better way - implement it yourself with completions api. we did that way.

Did you look at Pinecone Assistant API?

Thanks, @javidd . I’m leaning that way. We’ve already belt a platform that does much of the wrapper functionality we need. Have you seen a good summary of the gaps between Completions and Assistants API? I appreciate your insights.

@blichtenwalner main gaps and problems I have seen: With assistants - you can’t manage context usage (for memory). After 4-5 messages you will see that it uses between 9000-12000 tokens on each answer Api works slowly if you want to save messages in your own database. And, in the end you have save…

Thanks for the excellent summary. I feel foolish but what’s the benefit to Assistants then? I went down that path and now I’m regretting it. With completions you give the instructions to which can differentiate your “personalities” and knowledge right?

Of course, you can give instructions as system prompt. Using Assistants you may not need to implement saving chats, messages in your database. because implementing that functionality to save them, to save separate chats etc. takes some time. some message types are text, some image etc.

Just from speaking from my experience – I had built my own setup prior to Assistants API – and there really is no comparison. Not because my previous implementation was somehow hampered, but because the Assistants API is that good. You’ll regret going with something else when next month they releas…

I noticed that during 12 days of OpenAI there were no updates to the Assistants API. Personally, I grew really frustrated by the limitations of the Assistants API, of which there are many. The final straw for me was when I reached out to OpenAI Support for a major problem and the AI-based response…

Can’t run a business on “just wait two more weeks bro”. Assistants API is obviously not a high priority item for OpenAI. Not sure what happened with your implementation, but I’ve posted benchmarks in other threads comparing the Assistant API to Completions. Even with a fresh thread that has 0 messag…

Also would like to know if assistant API is ever leaving beta? It’s great that o3 is accessible on it and it feels like it getting somewhat more stable lately but for five-six months now it’s been a mess and it makes me wonder if the assistant API is a future priority for OpenAI or a forgotten proje…

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We moved to llamaindex. Much more control. Less blackbox.

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