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Web App Updates

• Enhanced chat search across conversation titles, message content, and attachment names.

Tokenized DIEM Launched on Wednesday, August 20th

Last Wednesday, Venice launched support for Tokenized DIEM, including a new token dashboard design. Full details of the launch can be found here: https://venice.ai/blog/7-days-to-diem

Upcoming API Model Retirements

Venice has been steadily adding new models, and as users adopt them, we begin phasing out older ones with lower usage. A few models are scheduled for retirement, each with a stronger recommended replacement. Deprecation warnings will appear in your API responses when using these models until the sunset dates listed below.

You can see all the details about our deprecation policy in our Deprecations docs. Please check this page to understand:

• Our lifecycle policy (when and why models get retired)

• How deprecation warnings work in API responses

• What happens after sunset dates

• The live Deprecation Tracker (always up to date)

Models scheduled for deprecation → Recommended replacements:

Removal date: Sep 22, 2025
deepseek-r1-671b → qwen3-235b
llama-3.1-405b → qwen3-235b
dolphin-2.9.2-qwen2-72b → venice-uncensored
qwen-2.5-vl → mistral-31-24b
qwen-2.5-qwq-32b → qwen3-235b (with disable_thinking=true)
qwen-2.5-coder-32b → qwen3-235b
deepseek-coder-v2-lite → qwen3-235b
pony-realism → lustify-sdxl
stable-diffusion-3.5 → qwen-image

Removal date: Oct 22, 2025
flux-dev → qwen-image
flux-dev-uncensored → lustify-sdxl

Calls to these models will keep working until sunset, but with a deprecation warning. After sunset, direct calls to these IDs won’t return results unless you're using them via traits. We highly recommend using traits (default_code, default_vision, default_reasoning, etc.) since they always map to supported models.