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    "title": "OpenAI shuts down gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-3.5-turbo, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini, o4-mini, gpt-image-1 on 2026-10-23",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nScripts using `gpt-4-turbo`, `gpt-4`, `gpt-3.5-turbo`, `o1`, `o1-pro`, `o3-mini`, `o4-mini`, `gpt-4.1-nano`, `gpt-4o-2024-05-13` or `gpt-image-1` stop working.\n\n## Cause\nAnnounced 2026-04-22, shutdown date 2026-10-23 (including aliases such as `gpt-3.5-turbo`, `gpt-4`, `o1`, `o3-mini`, `o4-mini` and the `-completions` variants, plus fine-tunes `ft-gpt-3.5-turbo`, `ft-gpt-4`, `ft-babbage-002`, `ft-davinci-002`).\n\n## Fix\nOpenAI's substitutes:\n| shut down | substitute |\n|---|---|\n| gpt-3.5-turbo*, o4-mini | gpt-5.6-terra |\n| gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, o1, o3-mini | gpt-5.6-sol |\n| o1-pro | gpt-5.6-sol with `reasoning.mode: pro` |\n| gpt-4.1-nano | gpt-5.6-luna |\n| gpt-image-1 | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare |\n\nThe `gpt-5.6` alias routes to `gpt-5.6-sol` (changelog).\n\n## Verify\n`grep -rnE 'gpt-3\\.5|gpt-4-turbo|\"o1\"|o3-mini|o4-mini' .` shows no remaining call sites.\n\n## Sources\n- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations\n- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog",
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      "legacy"
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    "observed_at": "2026-10-23",
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