Not the first time either - they shut down a bunch of of their original proprietary hosted embedding models in this announcement back in Apr…

Not the first time either - they shut down a bunch of of their original proprietary hosted embedding models in this announcement back in April 2024 https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-api-general-availability/#deprecation-of-older-embeddings-models OpenAI is shutting down text-embedding-3-small?!? I strongly believe that if you shut down a closed-source embedding model that you should open-source. Imaging the trillions of tokens that will no longer be queryable. cc @romainhuet

Source: Simon Willison (X) | 2026-04-22