This AI model release calendar tracks major model launches from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, SpaceXAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral AI, Moonshot AI, Z.ai, MiniMax, NVIDIA, Microsoft AI, Cohere, Xiaomi, and other prominent AI labs. The newest-first tables show each release date, provider, and model type.
Dates use the earliest meaningful availability stage for each entry. Preview access counts once people outside the provider can use the model. A later general release receives another entry only when availability expands materially.
The calendar includes flagship models, major open-weight releases, and significant multimodal, image, audio, and embedding model families.
Last updated: October 15, 2026
AI Models Released in October 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Oct. 15, 2026 Muse Spark Open Meta General / Coding / Multimodal Oct. 15, 2026 FLUX 3 Image Klein Black Forest Labs Image / Open Oct. 13, 2026 Gemini Argon Google General / Reasoning / Coding Oct. 7, 2026 Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic General / Reasoning / Coding Oct. 7, 2026 MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Microsoft AI Coding Oct. 6, 2026 Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI General / Multimodal / Reasoning Oct. 6, 2026 Nano Banana 2.1 Google DeepMind Image / Multimodal Oct. 6, 2026 EmbeddingGemma 2 Google DeepMind Embedding / Multimodal Oct. 5, 2026 Beam Reflection AI General / Reasoning / Coding Oct. 3, 2026 Kolibri Aleph Alpha General / Reasoning Oct. 1, 2026 MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming / MAI-Voice-2.1 Microsoft AI Speech
Earlier 2026 AI Model Releases September 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Sep. 30, 2026 Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind General / Multimodal Sep. 30, 2026 Cohere Embed 5 Cohere Embedding / Multimodal Sep. 29, 2026 GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI General / Reasoning / Coding Sep. 28, 2026 Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic General / Reasoning / Coding Sep. 22, 2026 GPT-6 Sol OpenAI General / Reasoning / Coding Sep. 22, 2026 GPT-6 Luna OpenAI General / Reasoning / Coding Sep. 22, 2026 Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic General / Reasoning / Coding Sep. 22, 2026 Grok 4.7 SpaceXAI General / Reasoning / Coding Sep. 22, 2026 MiMo-V2.6 Pro / Flash Xiaomi General / Reasoning / Multimodal Sep. 20, 2026 Qwen-Image-2.1 Alibaba / Qwen Image / Multimodal Sep. 11, 2026 Kimi K2.8 Preview Moonshot AI General / Reasoning / Coding Sep. 10, 2026 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash DeepSeek Multimodal Sep. 10, 2026 gpt-live-1 OpenAI Multimodal Sep. 8, 2026 GPT-Image-2.5 OpenAI Image Sep. 3, 2026 GPT-6 Astra OpenAI General / Reasoning / Coding Sep. 2, 2026 Gemini 3.8 Flash Google DeepMind General / Multimodal Sep. 2, 2026 Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber Google DeepMind Cybersecurity Sep. 2, 2026 Muse Spark 1.3 Meta General / Coding / Multimodal Sep. 1, 2026 Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic General / Research Sep. 1, 2026 Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic General / Research
August 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Aug. 26, 2026 Qwen3.8 Flash Alibaba / Qwen General / Multimodal Aug. 26, 2026 GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai General / Reasoning / Coding Aug. 21, 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp DeepSeek Multimodal Aug. 14, 2026 GLM-5.3 Z.ai General / Reasoning / Coding Aug. 13, 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek General / Reasoning Aug. 13, 2026 Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind General / Multimodal Aug. 12, 2026 Grok 4.6 SpaceXAI General / Coding Aug. 11, 2026 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVIDIA General / Agentic Aug. 10, 2026 Muse Glimmer Meta General / Local Aug. 5, 2026 Muse Spark 1.2 Meta Coding / Multimodal Aug. 2, 2026 Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba / Qwen General / Multimodal
July 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Jul. 31, 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Flash DeepSeek General / Reasoning Jul. 31, 2026 MiniMax H3 MiniMax Omni-modal / Generative Jul. 24, 2026 Claude Opus 5 Anthropic General / Coding Jul. 21, 2026 Gemini 3.6 Flash Google DeepMind General / Multimodal Jul. 21, 2026 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google DeepMind General / Multimodal Jul. 21, 2026 Qwen3.7 Flash Alibaba / Qwen General / Multimodal Jul. 16, 2026 Kimi K3 Moonshot AI General / Multimodal Jul. 16, 2026 Grok 4.5 SpaceXAI General / Coding Jul. 9, 2026 GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna OpenAI General Jul. 9, 2026 Muse Spark 1.1 Meta General / Multimodal Jul. 7, 2026 Muse Image Meta Image
June 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Jun. 30, 2026 Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic General / Coding Jun. 26, 2026 GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna OpenAI General Jun. 16, 2026 GLM-5.2 Z.ai General / Reasoning / Coding Jun. 9, 2026 Claude Fable 5 Anthropic General / Research Jun. 9, 2026 Claude Mythos 5 Anthropic General / Research Jun. 1, 2026 Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba / Qwen General / Multimodal Jun. 1, 2026 MiniMax M3 MiniMax General / Multimodal
May 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type May 28, 2026 Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic General / Coding May 20, 2026 Qwen3.7 Max Alibaba / Qwen General / Reasoning May 20, 2026 Command A+ Cohere General / Multimodal / Agentic May 19, 2026 Gemini 3.5 Flash Google DeepMind General / Multimodal May 19, 2026 Gemini Omni Google DeepMind Multimodal / Generative
April 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Apr. 28, 2026 Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI General / Multimodal Apr. 24, 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Pro / V4-Flash DeepSeek General / Reasoning Apr. 23, 2026 GPT-5.5 / GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI General Apr. 20, 2026 Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI General / Multimodal Apr. 16, 2026 Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic General / Coding Apr. 16, 2026 Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba / Qwen General / Multimodal Apr. 14, 2026 Qwen3.6 Max Alibaba / Qwen General / Reasoning Apr. 8, 2026 Muse Spark Meta General / Multimodal Apr. 2, 2026 Gemma 4 Google DeepMind General / Multimodal / Reasoning Apr. 1, 2026 Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba / Qwen General / Multimodal
March 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Mar. 26, 2026 Qwen3.5 Omni Alibaba / Qwen Omni-modal Mar. 18, 2026 MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax General / Coding Mar. 16, 2026 Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI General / Multimodal Mar. 5, 2026 GPT-5.4 / GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI General / Reasoning Mar. 3, 2026 GPT-5.3 Instant OpenAI General
February 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Feb. 19, 2026 Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind General / Reasoning Feb. 17, 2026 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic General / Coding Feb. 15, 2026 Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba / Qwen General / Multimodal Feb. 12, 2026 MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax General / Coding Feb. 5, 2026 Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic General / Coding
January 2026 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Jan. 27, 2026 Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI General / Multimodal
Major AI Model Releases from Earlier Years 2025 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Dec. 11, 2025 GPT-5.2 OpenAI General Dec. 2, 2025 Mistral 3 Mistral AI General / Multimodal Dec. 1, 2025 DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek General / Reasoning Aug. 7, 2025 GPT-5 OpenAI General / Reasoning Aug. 5, 2025 gpt-oss-120b / gpt-oss-20b OpenAI General / Reasoning Jul. 28, 2025 GLM-4.5 / GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai General / Reasoning / Coding Jul. 11, 2025 Kimi K2 Moonshot AI General Jul. 9, 2025 Grok 4 xAI General / Reasoning May 22, 2025 Claude Opus 4 / Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic General / Coding Apr. 29, 2025 Qwen3 Alibaba / Qwen General / Reasoning Apr. 5, 2025 Llama 4 Scout / Maverick Meta Multimodal Mar. 12, 2025 Gemma 3 Google DeepMind General / Multimodal Feb. 24, 2025 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic General / Reasoning Jan. 20, 2025 DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek General / Reasoning
2024 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Dec. 26, 2024 DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek General Sep. 25, 2024 Llama 3.2 Meta General / Multimodal Sep. 19, 2024 Qwen2.5 Alibaba / Qwen General / Coding / Math Jul. 24, 2024 Mistral Large 2 Mistral AI General Jul. 23, 2024 Llama 3.1 Meta General Jul. 18, 2024 Mistral NeMo Mistral AI General Jun. 27, 2024 Gemma 2 Google DeepMind General Jun. 7, 2024 Qwen2 Alibaba / Qwen General May 13, 2024 GPT-4o OpenAI Multimodal Apr. 23, 2024 Phi-3 Mini Microsoft General / Small Language Model Apr. 18, 2024 Llama 3 Meta General Apr. 17, 2024 Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI General / MoE Mar. 4, 2024 Claude 3 Opus / Sonnet Anthropic General / Multimodal
2023 Release Date Model Provider Model Type Dec. 11, 2023 Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI General / Mixture-of-Experts Dec. 6, 2023 Gemini 1.0 Google DeepMind Multimodal Sep. 27, 2023 Mistral 7B Mistral AI General Jul. 18, 2023 Llama 2 Meta General Jul. 11, 2023 Claude 2 Anthropic General Mar. 14, 2023 GPT-4 OpenAI Multimodal Mar. 14, 2023 Claude / Claude Instant Anthropic General
Detailed AI Model Timelines by Provider For detailed histories, individual model dates, and provider-specific milestones, use the following ScriptByAI timelines:
Related AI Model References FAQs What counts as an AI model release in this calendar? A distinct named model or major model version qualifies when real external access begins through a product, API, preview program, beta, or open-weight distribution. The calendar prioritizes releases with clear model-family or ecosystem importance. Routine checkpoints and later listings on third-party model catalogs are not counted as new releases.
Why can one AI model have more than one release date? Some providers open a model to a limited group before expanding access. The calendar records another date when the later stage materially changes availability, such as a limited preview moving to general availability.
Does availability on another AI platform create a new model release date? No. A later appearance in a cloud catalog, coding product, API gateway, or model marketplace does not change the model’s original release chronology.
