AI model releases by month
11 months of model releases, 88 releases in all, each with its date and a vendor source on its model page.
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Each month below lists the releases in our dataset with the date, the vendor and the status, and links the model page where every fact carries its source. Busier months with at least 5 releases and enough context also have their own page with vendor date sources. This is not every model each vendor shipped: it is the set we have verified, so a quiet month here can still be a busy month elsewhere.
AI model releases, October 2026
16 releases from 11 vendors: OpenAI, Moonshot AI, NVIDIA, Mistral AI, Inception, MiniMax, DeepSeek, Meta, xAI, Google, Anthropic.
- : GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI, generally available)
- : Kimi K3.1 Pro (Moonshot AI, generally available)
- : Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed (Moonshot AI, generally available)
- : Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4GB) (NVIDIA, generally available)
- : Voxtral 3 (Mistral AI, public preview)
- : Mercury 3 (Inception, generally available)
- : MiniMax M3.1 Flash (MiniMax, generally available)
- : DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (DeepSeek, generally available)
- : Muse Spark Open (Meta, generally available)
- : Grok Voice 3.0 (xAI, generally available)
- : Gemini 4 Argon (Google, generally available)
- : Muse Wonder (Meta, public preview)
- : Muse Wonder Full (Meta, limited access)
- : Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : Mistral Large 4 (Mistral AI, public preview)
- : Nano Banana 2.1 (Google, generally available)
AI model releases, September 2026
20 releases from 6 vendors: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Cohere.
- : GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI, generally available)
- : Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (Google, generally available)
- : Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS (Google, generally available)
- : GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI, generally available)
- : GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI, generally available)
- : Grok 4.7 (xAI, generally available)
- : Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 (xAI, generally available)
- : Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : Gemini 3.8 Live (Google, generally available)
- : Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (Google, generally available)
- : DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (DeepSeek, generally available)
- : GPT-Live 1 (OpenAI, generally available)
- : North Small Translate (Cohere, generally available)
- : GPT-Image-2.5 Flare (OpenAI, generally available)
- : GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst (OpenAI, generally available)
- : GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI, generally available)
- : Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google, generally available)
- : Claude Mythos 5.1 (Anthropic, limited access)
AI model releases, August 2026
7 releases from 4 vendors: Google, Z.ai, Alibaba, xAI.
- : Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (Google, generally available)
- : Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (Google, generally available)
- : GLM-5.3-Flash (Z.ai, generally available)
- : GLM-5.3 (Z.ai, generally available)
- : Qwen3.8-27B (Alibaba, generally available)
- : Grok 4.6 (xAI, generally available)
- : Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Alibaba, generally available)
AI model releases, July 2026
14 releases from 6 vendors: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Moonshot AI, xAI, Cohere.
- : Gemini Robotics ER 2 (Google, public preview)
- : GPT-Live-Transcribe (OpenAI, generally available)
- : GPT-Transcribe (OpenAI, generally available)
- : Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google, generally available)
- : Gemini 3.6 Flash (Google, generally available)
- : Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI, generally available)
- : GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI, generally available)
- : GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI, generally available)
- : GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI, generally available)
- : Grok 4.5 (xAI, generally available)
- : Cohere Transcribe Arabic (Cohere, generally available)
- : GPT-Realtime-2.1 (OpenAI, generally available)
- : GPT-Realtime-2.1 mini (OpenAI, generally available)
AI model releases, June 2026
6 releases from 4 vendors: Anthropic, Google, Z.ai, Cohere.
- : Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : Nano Banana 2 Lite (Google, generally available)
- : GLM-5.2 (Z.ai, generally available)
- : Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : Claude Mythos 5 (Anthropic, limited access)
- : North Mini Code (Cohere, generally available)
AI model releases, May 2026
5 releases from 4 vendors: Anthropic, Google, Cohere, xAI.
- : Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : Nano Banana Pro (Google, generally available)
- : Command A+ (Cohere, generally available)
- : Grok Build 0.1 (xAI, limited access)
- : Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Google, generally available)
AI model releases, April 2026
7 releases from 5 vendors: Mistral AI, OpenAI, Alibaba, Anthropic, Z.ai.
- : Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI, generally available)
- : GPT-5.5 (OpenAI, generally available)
- : GPT-5.5 Pro (OpenAI, generally available)
- : Qwen3.6-27B (Alibaba, generally available)
- : GPT-Image-2 (OpenAI, generally available)
- : Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : GLM-5.1 (Z.ai, generally available)
AI model releases, March 2026
7 releases from 5 vendors: Google, Cohere, Mistral AI, OpenAI, xAI.
- : Gemma 4 (Google, generally available)
- : Cohere Transcribe (Cohere, generally available)
- : Voxtral TTS (Mistral AI, generally available)
- : GPT-5.4 mini (OpenAI, generally available)
- : Mistral Small 4 (Mistral AI, generally available)
- : Grok 4.20 (xAI, generally available)
- : GPT-5.4 (OpenAI, generally available)
AI model releases, February 2026
4 releases from 3 vendors: Google, Anthropic, Z.ai.
- : Gemini 3.1 Pro (Google, public preview)
- : Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic, generally available)
- : GLM-5 (Z.ai, generally available)
- : Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic, generally available)
AI model releases, January 2026
1 release from 1 vendor: Z.ai.
- : GLM-Image (Z.ai, generally available)
AI model releases, December 2025
1 release from 1 vendor: Mistral AI.
- : Ministral 3 14B (Mistral AI, generally available)