OpenAI's latest SDK hints at new 'realtime' and 'responses' beta APIs with connection mana

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Nov 3, 2026 18:15 UTC pypi openai

OpenAI's latest SDK hints at new 'realtime' and 'responses' beta APIs with connection management, potential JSON mode improvements, and new tool types including 'image_generation' and 'web_search_preview'.

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openai's new sdk mentions `client.beta.realtime.connect` and `client.beta.responses.connect`. could we be seeing new streaming or interactive apis soon?

looks like openai is adding `image_generation` and `web_search_preview` as tool types in their sdk. json mode also seems to be getting some love.

openai 3.42.1 -> 3.43.0: +181 strings, -732 strings, 61 interesting [feature_flag] (4) + py connection = client.beta.realtime.connect(...).enter() # ... connection.close() + py connection = client.beta.responses.connect(...).enter() # ... connection.close() + py connection = client.beta.realtime.connect(...).enter() # ... connection.close() + py connection = client.beta.responses.connect(...).enter() # ... connection.close() [sentence] (61) + py connection = client.beta.realtime.connect(...).enter() # ... connection.close() + py connection = client.beta.responses.connect(...).enter() # ... connection.close() + py connection = client.beta.realtime.connect(...).enter() # ... connection.close() + py connection = client.beta.responses.connect(...).enter() # ... connection.close() + .""" tools: List[AssistantTool] """A list of tool enabled on the assistant. There can be a maximum of 128 tools per assistant. Tools can be of types + Add a file to a vector store and poll until processing is complete. `max_wait_seconds` limits polling after upload and attachment; see `poll` for details. + Attach a file to the given vector store and wait for it to be processed. `max_wait_seconds` limits polling after attachment; see `poll` for details. + How to select a tool from the allowed set. + Locate only the finite rich wire fields; no caller-supplied paths. + The lane exceeded its buffered event limits + The tool choice type. Always `allowed_tools`. + The tool to call. Always `code_interpreter`. + The tool to call. Always `image_generation`. + The tool to call. Always `web_search_preview`. + The tools that the delegated Responses model may call. + Upload a file to the `files` API and then attach it to the given vector store. Note the file will be asynchronously p