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gpt-5-mini given 36 days
OpenAI sets retirement for December 11, 2026
gpt-5-mini, an OpenAI model that answered questions, wrote emails and was blamed for both, has been given a date: December 11, 2026. That is 36 days from this edition. It is 1 year and 2 months old. It continues to work normally in the meantime, which is the strange part.
Its work passes to gpt-5.6-terra, which the family describes as 'recommended'.
Last seen alive
In a scan of the 60 most-starred LLM repositories on GitHub (November 5, 2026), this code names it:
- browser-use/browser-use (120,083 stars) ·
examples/models/gpt-5-mini.py - mem0ai/mem0 (68,449 stars) ·
integrations/hermes-plugin-mem0/_openai_llm.py
| Model ID | gpt-5-mini |
|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI deprecations page |
| Born | August 7, 2025 |
| Shuts down | December 11, 2026 |
| Successor | gpt-5.6-terra |
In lieu of flowers
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