From my readings, Assistant is more of a raw GPT flow with a touch of a persistent state by keeping conversations to a readable thread. It does allow using the

From my readings, Assistant is more of a raw GPT flow with a touch of a persistent state by keeping conversations to a readable thread. It does allow using the Code Interpreter or File Parsing tools if you need those. The GPTs are more system prompt engineering on top of the existing ChatGPT Plus infrastructure (with its freebies such as DALL-E 3 image generation).