Does Vercel AI SDK Integrate with Pinecone Assistants?

Can pinecone assistants be connected (like an LLM provider) to the Vercel AI SDK to allow chat with an assistant on a server side function? We want to get started with pinecone by trying out the assistants. Do you have example code?

Looking further, I notice that Vercel AI SDK does provide a way to integrate with OpenAI Assistants, but the example appears to be a frontend integration.
We’d like to integrate with pinecone assistants server side.

Related question. Longer term, what are the pros/cons in brief of using pinecone assistants vs building our own assistant using a vector database and a model? One ‘con’ is that it appears we can only choose two models with assistants, gpt4 and claude, correct? Should we just skip over using an assistant and go straight to creating our own, bc we’ll quickly outgrow the pinecone assistant anyway?

Thanks for your help