Changelog

Today’s cover art can be found on the Venice Social feed.

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.

Introducing Tokenized Diem

The next step in VVV's tokenomics is here.

Venice is soon tokenizing the Diem unit, enabling VVV holders to mint Diems.

As per the API today, 1 Diem = $1 of credit per day

What's changing is that these Diem units will be able to be minted by anyone who has VVV. This enables the long-requested "compute marketplace," and should simplify the API dynamics for crypto users.

We are not announcing this on X or via public blog yet; first step is to communicate to the Venice community, to ensure that VVV holders understand what Diem is and how it improves the dynamics of VVV.

Please review the details of tokenized Diem in the attached PDF, and feel free to discuss openly on Discord.

The upgrade will be coming in August.

App Updates

• Thumbs up and Thumbs down rating buttons have been added to responses to help us gauge sentiment on model performance over time. These ratings will be used by our team to help understand which models are working well relative to each other on the Venice platform.
  

  

• Added a notification bell to the Venice Social Feed to provide feedback when other users like posted content.

• Added a notification above the chat box that shows when custom system prompts are enabled.

• Fixed a bug that was causing EXIF data to be stripped out when downloading images via the contextual menu.

• Improved subscription management pages with additional tool tips and user surveys.

API Updates

• Added API key details endpoint. API docs have been updated.

Image Editing (Inpainting) is Back!

We’ve brought image editing (inpainting) back to Venice for Pro users, now powered by Flux Kontext DEV.

How Image Editing it works
We’re running Flux Kontext DEV with a custom implementation that understands natural language editing commands. Here’s how it works:

1. Upload an image using the paperclip button and select “Edit Image”

2. Or generate an image first, then click the paint roller icon in the action menu

3. Describe your edit in plain language,

Capabilities of the new Image Editing

• Inpainting: Remove or replace objects (“remove the vase on the table”)

• Style changes: Transform artistic styles (“change this to Ghibli style”, “make it monochrome”)

• Compositional editing: Modify poses, angles, compositions (“create a variation of this image”, “rotate the person by 80°“)

• Color/tone adjustments: Change lighting, colors, moods (“colorize this black and white photo”, “add dramatic shadows”)

We need your help testing the new Image Editing
Please try the feature and send any feedback, bugs, or unexpected behavior to [email protected].

A wider release along with API support is planned once we’ve addressed community feedback.

App Updates

• Improved reliability of the simple mode feature in chat by ensuring the latest selected setting is always used, preventing issues caused by outdated values during asynchronous operations.

• Improved performance of the Venice “Loading” keys.

Model Updates

• Updated Venice Uncensored to an improved 1.1 version with some key improvements and bug fixes:

  • Better tone control: The model is now more neutral and polite by default, but still capable of being rude or explicit when prompted.

  • Improved ethical reasoning The model now handles ethical dilemmas better, prioritizing consequentialist reasoning to reduce bias and inconsistency.

  • Bug fixes: Issues like the model responding inappropriately to minimal inputs (e.g., single letters) have been addressed.

• Removed Qwen Coder and DeepSeek Coder after deprecation period.

Token Updates

• Updated all references from Venice Compute Units (VCU) to Diem - See this blog for more details.

• Fixed duplicate toasts being displayed when a transaction fails.