Gemini 2.5 Pro and o4-mini deprecations for Assistant

DeprecationSep 15, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Google has deprecated the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, and OpenAI has deprecated o4-mini. Pinecone Assistant automatically routes all chat requests that specify gemini-2.5-pro to Gemini 3.5 Flash, and all chat requests that specify o4-mini to GPT-5, at the same price. No code changes are required.

Topics: LLMs, Pricing

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Date	Release	Type
Sep 15	Gemini 3.5 Flash now available for Assistant chat Update	Update

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