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Building Custom AI Assistants with OpenAIs New API. OpenAIs recent DevDay introduced an Assistants API designed for creating goal-driven AI agents. This allows developers to define an assistant with custom instructions and tools (e.g. code interpreter, retrieval, function calling). These assistants maintain persistent, infinitely-long conversations (threads), offloading state management to OpenAI rather than the developer. For example, you could build a 24/7 virtual data analyst that gradually gathers user preferences and domain knowledge over many sessions. We explain how this API works: define an assistant, plug in APIs or code tools, and let users chat naturally. We also cover the related new GPTs feature: you can release your own GPT with specialized instructions (e.g. a Markdown editor GPT or Sales GPT). This blog walks through a tutorial scenario of creating a personalized customer-support chatbot using the Assistants API, leveraging function calling for database lookups and retrieval for internal documents. OpenAIs announcement makes it clear that AI assistants are now more customizable and production-ready than ever.