Releases

Every model, product, paper and set of open weights the record has entered, newest first, each one linked to the announcement it came from.

156 releases recorded, 38 of them with open weights.

Date Release Maker Kind What it was
2026
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Google DeepMind model More controllable omni-modal tier for developers.
Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind model Core reasoning improvements.
DeepSeek V4-Pro DeepSeek model, open weights Official release of the larger V4 tier, 1.6 trillion parameters per the April preview.
Grok 4.6 xAI model Flagship model with a 500,000-token context window, at $2 and $6 per million tokens.
Muse Glimmer Meta open-weights 30-billion-parameter agentic model published under Apache 2.0.
GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI model New default model for free-tier ChatGPT.
Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba model 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model; weights scheduled for release the following week.
DeepSeek V4-Flash (GA) DeepSeek model, open weights General release; agent benchmarks reported to beat the V4-Pro-Preview.
Robostral Navigate Mistral AI model Mistral’s first embodied-navigation model.
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic model Frontier model for long-running agents and technical work.
Gemini 3.6 Flash Google DeepMind model Coding, knowledge and multimodal improvements.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google DeepMind model Low-latency tier for high-volume automation.
Qwen3.8-Max (preview) Alibaba model 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model previewed at WAIC Shanghai.
Grok Build xAI product, open weights Open-sourced under the Apache License after a data-handling controversy.
Grok 4.5 xAI model Released through Grok Build, the Cursor editor and the xAI API.
Gemini Robotics 2 Google DeepMind model Whole-body control research for robots.
Lyria 3.5 Google DeepMind model Music-generation model added to Google Flow Music.
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic model Mid-tier model with a 1-million-token context window.
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic model General release, with flagged cybersecurity and biology requests falling back to Opus 4.8.
Claude Mythos 5 Anthropic model Restricted-access release through Project Glasswing.
RTX Spark Nvidia product AI-capable chip for laptops.
Mistral OCR 4 Mistral AI model Optical-character-recognition and document-understanding model.
Gemini computer use (3.5 Flash) Google DeepMind product Computer-use capability added to Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Nano Banana 2 Lite / Gemini Omni Flash Google DeepMind model Lighter-weight image and omni-modal model tier.
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic model Frontier model for complex reasoning and agentic coding.
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) Google DeepMind product Reached general availability after a November 2025 preview.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Google DeepMind model First public release in the Gemini 3.5 family.
Grok Build (SWE-bench update) xAI product Scored 70.8% on SWE-bench Verified.
DeepSeek-V4 (Pro / Flash) DeepSeek open-weights Mixture-of-experts models with 1M-token context, MIT license, weights on Hugging Face.
A13 process node TSMC product Chip manufacturing roadmap update, a shrink of A14; production slated for 2029.
Personal Computer (Mac) Perplexity AI product Extends Perplexity’s Computer agent to act on local files and apps on Mac.
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic model Coding-focused upgrade to Opus 4.6; adds an “xhigh” effort mode and higher-resolution vision.
Qwen3.6 Alibaba open-weights 35B total / 3B active mixture-of-experts model released under Apache 2.0, weights on Hugging Face.
Muse Spark Meta model First model from Meta Superintelligence Labs; began replacing Llama in Meta’s consumer apps.
Claude Mythos Preview Anthropic model Restricted preview shared with 50+ organizations via Project Glasswing to find software vulnerabilities.
Qwen3.6-Plus / Qwen3.5-Omni Alibaba model Proprietary flagship variants, access via Qwen apps and Alibaba Cloud only.
Attie Bluesky product Claude-based chatbot app for building custom social feeds.
Lyria 3 Pro Google DeepMind model Music-generation model update for longer, more structurally aware tracks.
Voxtral TTS Mistral AI model, open weights Open-weights multilingual text-to-speech, zero-shot voice cloning from about 3 seconds of audio.
Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI model, open weights 119B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (6B active), 256k context, text and image input, Apache 2.0.
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) Google model Faster image generation, 512px to 4K, up to 5-character consistency, SynthID watermarking.
Indus AI models and chat app Sarvam AI open-weights India-based lab’s models described as a bet on the viability of open-source AI.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind model Tops Humanity’s Last Exam and APEX-Agents benchmarks; built for agentic, multi-step reasoning; preview.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic model 1M-token context in beta; 60.4% on ARC-AGI-2; record OS World and SWE-Bench scores; default for Free and Pro.
Tiny Aya model family (Aya, Aya-Global, Aya-Earth, Aya-Fire, Aya-Water) Cohere open-weights 3.35B-parameter open-weight models covering 70+ languages; trained on 64 H100 GPUs; launched at the India AI Summit.
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic model Adds “agent teams” for parallel multi-agent work; context window expanded to 1M tokens.
GPT-5.3 Codex OpenAI model Agentic coding model, 25% faster than GPT-5.2; released 15 minutes after Opus 4.6.
OpenAI macOS app for agentic coding OpenAI product Desktop app for Codex-style agentic coding, preceding GPT-5.3 Codex by three days.
Gemini Robotics (Atlas/Spot deployment) Google DeepMind / Boston Dynamics product AI technology deal to power Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid and Spot robots, unveiled at CES.
Claude Cowork Anthropic product Agentic desktop and web app giving Claude a sandboxed shell and file access, for non-technical users.
ChatGPT age-prediction system OpenAI product Estimates whether an account belongs to a user under 18 and restricts content accordingly.
Gemini 3 as default AI Overviews model Google product Gemini 3 became the default model powering AI Overviews in Google Search globally.
Chrome “auto browse” (Gemini 3) Google product Agentic Chrome feature for handling multi-step tasks such as booking travel.
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Google product, open weights Open standard proposed for agentic commerce, covering discovery through checkout.
2025
Sora 2 OpenAI product Updated video model launched with a social app. OpenAI revised its opt-out approach for rights holders within days.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic model Coding-focused update. Anthropic said it could hold a single task for about 30 hours.
GPT-5 OpenAI model OpenAI’s first unified reasoning-plus-chat model. Became the default in ChatGPT.
Grok Imagine xAI product Image and video generation tool released with a permissive “spicy mode.”
Grok 4 xAI model Generalist and code-specialized variants with a 256,000-token context window.
o3-pro OpenAI model Higher-compute variant of o3 for ChatGPT Pro and API users.
Claude Opus 4 Anthropic model Anthropic’s top coding model at release, built for long-running agent tasks.
Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic model Mid-tier upgrade to Sonnet 3.7 with better coding and instruction-following.
Veo 3 Google DeepMind model Text-and-image-to-video model announced at Google I/O 2025.
AlphaEvolve Google DeepMind paper Coding agent that found a new, faster matrix-multiplication algorithm.
o3 and o4-mini OpenAI model General-availability reasoning models succeeding o1.
Codex CLI OpenAI product, open weights Open-source terminal coding agent with Model Context Protocol support.
Llama 4 Scout and Maverick Meta open-weights Multimodal open-weight models. A third model, Behemoth, remained in training.
Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) Google DeepMind model Reasoning and multimodal model that topped the LMArena leaderboard at release.
GPT-4.5 OpenAI model OpenAI’s largest chat model at release, later positioned as a step toward GPT-5.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic model Hybrid reasoning model released alongside Claude Code.
Claude Code Anthropic product Terminal coding agent. Research preview, reached general availability on 22 May 2025.
Grok 3 xAI model Reasoning model with a “DeepSearch” agent mode, trained on the Colossus supercluster.
o3-mini OpenAI model Smaller reasoning model rolled out to free and paid ChatGPT tiers.
Operator OpenAI product Autonomous agent that browses the web and completes tasks such as form-filling and ordering.
DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek open-weights Open-weight reasoning model matching OpenAI o1 on several benchmarks at far lower reported cost.
2024
DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek open-weights 671B-parameter mixture-of-experts model; open weights published with a technical report.
o1-preview / o1-mini OpenAI model First OpenAI “reasoning” models, using an extended chain of thought before answering.
Llama 3.1 (8B, 70B, 405B) Meta open-weights 405B was the largest openly downloadable frontier-scale model to date.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic model Outperformed Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4o on several public benchmarks at launch.
Apple Intelligence Apple product On-device and “Private Cloud Compute” AI across iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia.
Copilot+ PCs (with Recall) Microsoft product Windows AI-PC hardware category; Recall’s local activity index was paused after privacy criticism.
GPT-4o OpenAI model Native text, audio and vision in one model; free ChatGPT tier access.
AlphaFold 3 Google DeepMind / Isomorphic Labs model Predicts structures of protein complexes with DNA, RNA, ligands and ions.
Llama 3 (8B, 70B) Meta open-weights Openly downloadable weights under Meta’s community license.
Claude 3 (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) Anthropic model 200K-token context window; Opus was the first model widely seen as GPT-4’s equal.
Gemini 1.5 Pro Google model 1M-token context window in limited preview; broader availability expanded through the year.
Sora OpenAI model Text-to-video model previewed publicly; a standalone Sora.com product followed in December 2024.
2023
Gemini 1.0 (Ultra/Pro/Nano) Google DeepMind model Natively multimodal; Google said Ultra was the first model past human-expert MMLU.
Meta AI assistant and AI characters Meta product An assistant on WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, plus 28 celebrity personas.
Mistral 7B Mistral AI open-weights Apache 2.0, 7 billion parameters, released as a BitTorrent link.
DALL-E 3 OpenAI model Announced 20 September; added to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise in October.
Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Stability AI open-weights 3.5B-parameter open text-to-image model.
Llama 2 Meta AI open-weights 7B, 13B and 70B, free for research and for most commercial use.
Claude 2 Anthropic model 100K-token context window; public beta at claude.ai in the US and UK.
GitHub Copilot X / Copilot Chat GitHub (Microsoft) product Added a GPT-4 chat interface to Copilot in the editor and the command line.
Bard Google product Public rollout in the US and UK, built on a lightweight version of LaMDA.
Midjourney v5 (alpha) Midjourney product The image model behind the widely shared fake photograph of Pope Francis.
GPT-4 OpenAI model Multimodal (text and image) model; technical report on arXiv.
Claude Anthropic product Anthropic’s first public assistant, via API and chat interface.
LLaMA Meta AI model 7B-65B research-only models; the weights leaked publicly on 3 March 2023.
Bing Chat (new Bing) Microsoft product GPT-4-based conversational search built into Bing and Edge.
2022
ChatGPT OpenAI product A free research preview of a conversational model, reached from a web page rather than through an API key.
Cicero Meta AI paper Combines language model with strategic reasoning for Diplomacy
Galactica Meta AI model Scientific-text language model; public demo withdrawn after criticism
Optimus (“Bumble C” prototype) Tesla product First working humanoid-robot prototype shown publicly
Whisper OpenAI open-weights Speech recognition and translation; code and weights under MIT license
Stable Diffusion Stability AI open-weights Text-to-image weights published under a license that permits commercial use, downloadable by anyone with a computer to run them.
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (200M+ update) DeepMind / EMBL-EBI dataset, open weights Expanded from about 1 million to over 200 million predicted structures
Midjourney (open beta) Midjourney product Discord-based text-to-image tool opened to the public
BLOOM BigScience open-weights 176B-parameter multilingual model; full weights published
GitHub Copilot GitHub / OpenAI product Left technical preview for general availability at $10/month
Imagen Google paper Text-to-image diffusion model emphasizing photorealism; not publicly released
Gato DeepMind paper Single 1.2B-parameter transformer performing over 600 tasks across modalities
DALL-E 2 OpenAI model Text-to-image model. Announced in April, opened to a waitlist in July, and available without a waitlist from September.
PaLM Google paper 540B-parameter dense transformer trained via the Pathways system
Chinchilla (“Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models”) DeepMind paper 70B-parameter model shows compute-optimal scaling beats larger undertrained models
2021
Megatron-Turing NLG 530B Microsoft / Nvidia model Dense transformer language model of 530 billion parameters, trained on 560 Nvidia DGX A100 servers.
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models Stanford CRFM paper, open weights Open-access report by more than 150 researchers that named the foundation-model category.
OpenAI Codex OpenAI model GPT-3 fine-tuned on public source code. Supplies the suggestions in GitHub Copilot.
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database DeepMind / EMBL-EBI dataset, open weights More than 350,000 predicted structures covering the human proteome and 20 other organisms.
GitHub Copilot (technical preview) GitHub / OpenAI product Editor extension suggesting lines and functions of code as a developer types, built on OpenAI Codex.
Wu Dao 2.0 Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence model Multimodal pretrained model announced at 1.75 trillion parameters, about ten times the count in GPT-3.
DALL-E OpenAI model A 12-billion-parameter version of GPT-3 that generates images from text captions.
CLIP OpenAI model, open weights Contrastive image-text model trained on 400 million pairs. Code and weights released openly.
2020
MuZero DeepMind paper Model-based reinforcement learning across Go, chess, shogi and Atari without being given the rules.
AlphaFold 2 DeepMind model Near-experimental accuracy on two-thirds of the CASP14 target proteins. Weights and code not yet public.
Apple M1 Apple product First Apple silicon Mac chip, with a 16-core Neural Engine rated at 11 trillion operations per second.
Tesla Full Self-Driving (Beta) Tesla product City-street driver-assistance software pushed to a small early-access group of owners.
Waymo One (fully driverless, public) Waymo product Robotaxi rides with no safety driver opened to the general public in Phoenix.
AlphaFold SARS-CoV-2 protein predictions DeepMind dataset, open weights Predicted structures for six under-studied coronavirus proteins, released openly as computational predictions.
OpenAI API (private beta) OpenAI product Commercial hosted access to GPT-3 for a private group of about a dozen partner companies.
GPT-3 (“Language Models are Few-Shot Learners”) OpenAI paper 175-billion-parameter language model. Access sold through an API; the weights were withheld.
2019
GPT-2 (1.5B, full) OpenAI model, open weights The complete model and code, released after a nine-month staged rollout.
AlphaStar (Grandmaster) DeepMind paper Nature paper reporting Grandmaster level across all three StarCraft II races under professional conditions.
RoBERTa Facebook AI paper, open weights A retrained BERT with more data and longer training, showing the original had been undertrained.
XLNet Google / Carnegie Mellon paper, open weights Permutation-based autoregressive pretraining; reported better results than BERT on 20 tasks.
OpenAI Five OpenAI model Beat OG, the reigning Dota 2 world champions, 2-0 in San Francisco.
GPT-2 (124M, staged) OpenAI model, open weights The small model and its code published openly; the full 1.5-billion-parameter version withheld, citing the risk of misuse.
AlphaStar DeepMind model Beat the professional StarCraft II players MaNa and TLO 10-1 in matches played the previous December.
2018
StyleGAN NVIDIA paper, open weights A style-based generator architecture for adversarial networks, used for high-fidelity synthesis of human faces.
PyTorch 1.0 Facebook AI Research product, open weights Stable release joining the eager research mode with graph-based execution for production.
Waymo One Waymo product The first commercial robotaxi service, in the Phoenix area, with a safety driver behind the wheel.
BERT Google paper, open weights Bidirectional transformer pretraining. Became the standard baseline in language research; code and weights released in November.
GPT-1 OpenAI paper, open weights Generative pretraining on unlabeled text followed by task fine-tuning, the pattern later scaled through the GPT series.
Google Duplex Google product An Assistant feature that telephones businesses to book appointments. Demonstrated at I/O; limited public testing followed.
2017
AlphaZero DeepMind paper One self-play algorithm reaching superhuman play at chess, shogi and Go from the rules alone.
AlphaGo Zero DeepMind paper A version of AlphaGo trained from self-play alone, with no human game records as input. Published in Nature.
iPhone X (Face ID) Apple product The first mass-market phone to use neural-network face authentication in place of a fingerprint reader.
OpenAI Dota 2 1v1 bot OpenAI model Trained by self-play. Beat the professional player Dendi in a one-on-one exhibition at The International 2017.
Transformer (“Attention Is All You Need”) Google paper The architecture behind nearly every large language model since. Attention only, with no recurrence and no convolution.
2016
Universe OpenAI product, open weights A platform for training agents across games, websites and desktop applications.
Amazon Go (employee beta) Amazon product A cashier-less convenience store in Seattle using computer vision and sensor fusion. Open to Amazon employees only until January 2018.
Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) Google paper A deep LSTM translation system, put into production on Google Translate for Chinese to English.
WaveNet DeepMind paper A generative model of raw audio waveforms, used for speech synthesis and for music.
Gym (public beta) OpenAI product, open weights A shared set of benchmark environments for reinforcement-learning research, from Atari games to simulated robots.
AlphaGo (Nature paper) DeepMind paper Deep neural networks paired with tree search. The method behind the Lee Sedol match, and the first disclosure of the 5-0 win over Fan Hui.