AI Product Release Calendar: Major AI Tool Launch Dates

AI assistants, coding agents, image generators, and other AI products have transformed how people work, research, and create. Their launches mark the emergence of new tools and capabilities across the industry.

This AI product release calendar traces when major AI products first entered the market and the key milestones in their development.

Updated: November 5, 2026

2026 AI Product Launches and Milestones

Date	Product Launch or Milestone
Sep. 29, 2026	OpenAI dots began rolling out as persistent AI agents that work through connected apps and a cloud computer.
Sep. 8, 2026	Meta Muse began rolling out in the U.S. as a personal AI agent that handles tasks across connected apps.
Aug. 12, 2026	Mistral Vibe replaced the Le Chat name as Mistral unified its chat, work and coding experiences.
Aug. 11, 2026	Grok Bot launched in beta for assigning work across apps and websites to persistent agents with their own computers.
Jul. 16, 2026	Gemini Notebook became the new name for NotebookLM, adding integrations and cloud-computer research capabilities.
Jul. 9, 2026	ChatGPT Work began rolling out for longer tasks across connected apps and files, with finished documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Apr. 28, 2026	Magnific became the new name of Freepik’s integrated AI creative platform, including the acquired Magnific image upscaler.
Apr. 26, 2026	The Sora product was discontinued.
Feb. 26, 2026	Perplexity Computer launched for Max subscribers as a cloud agent that delegates research, coding and creation tasks.
Feb. 2, 2026	The Codex app launched on macOS for managing coding agents and parallel tasks.
Jan. 21, 2026	Wix Harmony was announced as an AI website builder combining conversational creation with visual editing.
Jan. 12, 2026	Claude Cowork entered research preview in Claude Desktop on macOS for Max subscribers.

2025 AI Product Launches and Milestones

Date	Product Launch or Milestone
Nov. 20, 2025	Google Antigravity launched in public preview as an agent-centered development environment.
Nov. 17, 2025	Qwen App entered public beta as Alibaba’s consumer AI assistant for research, coding and everyday tasks.
November 2025	OpenClaw began as Peter Steinberger’s self-hosted personal assistant project, later renamed OpenClaw.
Oct. 29, 2025	Superhuman Go was introduced as a proactive assistant as Grammarly’s parent company adopted the Superhuman name.
Oct. 24, 2025	Quark AI Chat Assistant launched inside Alibaba’s Quark app, combining conversational answers and search.
Oct. 21, 2025	ChatGPT Atlas launched as an AI-powered browser with ChatGPT built into browsing.
Sep. 30, 2025	Sora launched an invite-based iOS app for creating and remixing videos, initially in the U.S. and Canada.
Sep. 18, 2025	Notion AI Agents launched with Notion 3.0 for carrying out multi-step work across pages, databases and connected tools.
Sep. 12, 2025	Meituan launched its consumer AI agent for voice-based food ordering and local-service tasks.
Jul. 23, 2025	GitHub Spark entered public preview for building and publishing apps through natural language.
Jul. 22, 2025	Qwen Code was introduced as an open-source terminal coding agent alongside Qwen3-Coder.
Jul. 17, 2025	ChatGPT agent began rolling out, combining research and actions through a virtual computer and incorporating Operator.
Jul. 15, 2025	OpenEvidence announced wider access to its physician-focused medical AI platform alongside its DeepConsult agent.
Jul. 9, 2025	Comet launched with access for Perplexity Max subscribers and a gradual invitation rollout (Timeline).
Jun. 25, 2025	Gemini CLI launched as an open-source agent for the terminal.
Jun. 19, 2025	MiniMax Agent launched as a general-purpose agent for multi-step research, coding and content tasks.
May 20, 2025	Google Flow launched as an AI filmmaking tool for creating and editing cinematic sequences.
May 20, 2025	Google Jules entered public beta as an asynchronous AI coding agent.
May 20, 2025	Google AI Mode became broadly available in the U.S. as a conversational search experience.
May 20, 2025	Google Stitch was introduced for generating UI designs and frontend code from prompts or images.
May 19, 2025	GitHub Copilot coding agent entered public preview for implementing tasks and creating pull requests from GitHub issues.
May 19, 2025	QQ Browser introduced its AI-first browser experience with conversational search and assistance.
May 16, 2025	Codex launched a cloud-based software engineering agent in research preview.
May 7, 2025	Figma Make was introduced as a prompt-to-app tool for generating interactive prototypes from designs or descriptions.
Apr. 29, 2025	Meta AI app launched as a standalone AI assistant app with voice interaction and personalized responses.
Apr. 22, 2025	Edits launched as Meta’s mobile video creation and editing app for creators.
Apr. 16, 2025	Codex CLI launched as an open-source coding agent for the terminal (Timeline).
Apr. 2, 2025	Genspark Super Agent launched to plan and carry out research, creative work and multi-step tasks with tools.
Mar. 6, 2025	Duck.ai exited beta under its Duck.ai name, providing private access to several chat models.
March 2025	Manus launched its general-purpose AI agent.
Feb. 26, 2025	Alexa+ was announced as Amazon’s generative AI assistant for conversations, household tasks and connected services.
Feb. 24, 2025	Claude Code entered a limited research preview as a coding tool in the terminal (Timeline).
Feb. 6, 2025	Le Chat mobile apps launched on iOS and Android as Mistral expanded its consumer AI assistant.
Feb. 2, 2025	ChatGPT introduced deep research for multi-step web research, initially for Pro users.
February 2025	Base44 launched as a conversational app builder that handles infrastructure such as databases and authentication.
Jan. 23, 2025	Operator opened as a browser-using agent in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S.
Jan. 15, 2025	DeepSeek app became available on iOS and Android as a mobile chatbot with search and file support.

2024 AI Product Launches and Milestones

Date	Product Launch or Milestone
Dec. 16, 2024	Google Whisk launched in Google Labs for generating and remixing images using visual prompts.
Dec. 10, 2024	Devin became generally available as Cognition’s AI software engineering agent.
Dec. 9, 2024	Sora launched as a standalone video-generation product at Sora.com for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users.
December 2024	Seekee appeared as an AI-search browser for answering questions and finding web information.
Nov. 13, 2024	Windsurf Editor was introduced as an agent-assisted code editor from the Codeium team.
November 2024	Lovable first launched as an AI app-building product for creating websites and applications through prompts.
Oct. 28, 2024	Apple Intelligence began rolling out on supported iPhone, iPad and Mac devices.
October 2024	Bolt.new launched as a browser-based AI app builder with a development environment.
October 2024	Tencent ima launched as an AI workspace centered on personal document libraries and search.
Sep. 11, 2024	NotebookLM introduced Audio Overviews: generated conversations between two AI hosts about uploaded sources.
September 2024	Replit Agent entered early access to build and deploy applications from natural-language instructions.
Aug. 6, 2024	Jimeng AI expanded its ByteDance AI video and image creation app to iOS after an Android release.
Jun. 18, 2024	Genspark went live as an AI search service.
Jun. 6, 2024	Kling AI began its text-to-video rollout, initially through beta access in China.
May 31, 2024	Baidu AI Search expanded Baidu’s search app around AI responses and agent-powered mobile search.
May 21, 2024	Adobe Lightroom introduced Firefly-powered Generative Remove in early access across mobile, desktop and web.
May 14, 2024	Google AI Overviews began rolling out AI-generated summaries to Google Search users in the U.S.
May 2024	Tencent Yuanbao launched as Tencent’s consumer AI assistant.
May 2024	Venice AI launched its privacy-focused AI chat service.
Apr. 18, 2024	Meta AI assistant expanded across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger with a standalone website.
Apr. 16, 2024	Yandex introduced Neuro, combining its search results with generative AI answers.
Apr. 3, 2024	Higgsfield Diffuse was introduced as Higgsfield’s first AI video creation app for personalized clips.
April 2024	Emochi appeared as a mobile AI character-chat and roleplay app.
Mar. 12, 2024	Devin debuted in preview as an autonomous AI software engineer.
Feb. 26, 2024	Mistral Le Chat entered beta as a conversational assistant built on Mistral models.
Feb. 8, 2024	Bard became Gemini. Gemini Advanced and a mobile experience began rolling out.
2024	Gauth (formerly Gauthmath) expanded its mobile study assistant under the Gauth brand for AI-powered homework explanations.

2023 AI Product Launches and Milestones

Date	Product Launch or Milestone
Dec. 13, 2023	Google AI Studio opened Gemini Pro API access to developers for prototyping and integrating AI applications.
Nov. 28, 2023	Amazon Q entered preview as a generative AI assistant for enterprise work and AWS development.
Nov. 28, 2023	Pika 1.0 launched its public web-based AI video generation and editing product.
Nov. 27, 2023	Magnific AI launched its AI image upscaler and detail-enhancement product.
Nov. 3, 2023	Grok was introduced in an early beta as xAI’s conversational assistant for users of X.
Oct. 11, 2023	Vercel v0 moved from alpha to beta for generating React user interfaces from text prompts.
October 2023	Canva Magic Studio introduced an integrated set of AI design, writing and media-creation tools.
October 2023	Kimi debuted as Moonshot AI’s long-context conversational assistant for reading and analyzing documents.
Sep. 27, 2023	Meta AI was announced for messaging and social apps alongside AI characters and creative tools.
Sep. 21, 2023	Microsoft Copilot was announced as a unified AI companion across Windows, Microsoft 365 and web services.
Sep. 13, 2023	Adobe Express became commercially available with Firefly generative AI integrated into design and content creation.
September 2023	Suno launched its music-creation service as a Discord bot.
Aug. 29, 2023	Ideogram opened public access to its AI image-generation service, including text rendering in images.
Aug. 21, 2023	TurboScribe launched its AI transcription service for converting audio and video into searchable text.
Aug. 10, 2023	ChatGLM launched as Zhipu AI’s consumer-facing Chinese-language chat assistant, now associated with Z.ai.
Aug. 9, 2023	Goodnotes released Goodnotes 6 with AI handwriting correction and math assistance.
August 2023	Doubao launched ByteDance’s conversational AI assistant in China.
August 2023	Dola (originally Cici) launched internationally as ByteDance’s AI assistant under the Cici name and was later renamed Dola.
Jul. 12, 2023	NotebookLM, previously shown as Project Tailwind, began rolling out to a small group of U.S. users (Product overview).
Jul. 11, 2023	Claude.ai opened as a public beta website in the U.S. and U.K.
Jun. 19, 2023	AI Gallery was released on iOS as an AI art and image-generation app.
Jun. 19, 2023	Meitu announced its MiracleVision generative vision model for AI image creation across its editing apps.
June 2023	Runway opened Gen-2 text-to-video creation to the public on its website.
May 10, 2023	Google Labs opened a home for early Google AI experiments and invited users to join product waitlists.
May 3, 2023	Chatbot Arena introduced crowdsourced, head-to-head comparison of AI chat models.
May 2, 2023	Pi launched as Inflection’s conversational personal AI assistant.
May 2023	SNOW launched its AI Profile experience for generating portrait images within the camera app.
Apr. 21, 2023	Facemoji introduced its AI keyboard assistant for generating and rewriting messages.
Apr. 11, 2023	Tongyi Qianwen was publicly unveiled by Alibaba Cloud, initially for enterprise and developer AI use.
Apr. 3, 2023	HeyGen became the new name of Movio’s AI avatar video product.
April 2023	HuggingChat debuted as Hugging Face’s experimental chat interface for community-hosted open models.
Mar. 21, 2023	Bard began opening access in the U.S. and U.K., with signups and a gradual rollout (Timeline).
Mar. 21, 2023	Adobe Firefly was announced in beta for generative image creation and text effects.
Mar. 16, 2023	Microsoft 365 Copilot was announced for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.
Mar. 16, 2023	Baidu ERNIE Bot was unveiled for invited testers as Baidu’s conversational AI assistant.
Mar. 14, 2023	Claude was introduced after a closed alpha, with partner access and requests for broader access (Timeline).
March 2023	Gamma introduced AI presentation generation.
March 2023	Cursor launched as an AI code editor (Timeline).
March 2023	Nova launched as a mobile AI chatbot offering conversations across supported AI models.
Feb. 22, 2023	Notion AI became broadly available for writing, summarizing and organizing work in Notion.
Feb. 14, 2023	OtterPilot launched as Otter.ai’s meeting assistant for automated notes, slide capture and summaries.
Feb. 7, 2023	Microsoft Bing and Edge introduced an AI-powered search and browser experience in preview, later incorporated into the Microsoft Copilot product line.
Early 2023	OpenRouter launched a unified API marketplace for using models from multiple AI providers.
Jan. 23, 2023	ElevenLabs launched its beta speech-generation platform for narrated audio.
2023	SeaArt AI began offering AI image generation through a consumer creative platform.
2023	ZeroGPT emerged as a web service for detecting AI-generated writing.
2023	Remini expanded from AI photo enhancement into generative AI image creation.

2022 AI Product Launches and Milestones

Date	Product Launch or Milestone
Dec. 21, 2022	Poe entered invite-only iOS beta as Quora’s interface for chatting with multiple AI assistants.
December 2022	Perplexity launched its answer engine (Timeline).
Nov. 30, 2022	ChatGPT launched publicly as a free research preview (Timeline).
Nov. 7, 2022	Hypic first launched globally as ByteDance’s mobile photo-editing app, later expanding its AI art tools.
November 2022	Picsart AI Image Generator debuted inside Picsart for creating images from text prompts.
September 2022	Character.AI opened its beta service for conversations with user-created AI characters.
August 2022	invideo AI began the AI video creation phase of invideo’s product, using prompts and generated or stock media.
Jul. 20, 2022	DALL·E 2 began a wider beta rollout of its text-to-image creative tool.
July 2022	Midjourney opened its image-generation beta through Discord.
Jun. 21, 2022	GitHub Copilot became generally available to individual developers after its technical preview.
May 16, 2022	Adot entered open beta as SK Telecom’s AI assistant for conversations and daily tasks.
Mar. 5, 2022	Wink debuted as Meitu’s AI-powered video editing and portrait-enhancement app.

2021 AI Product Launches and Milestones

Date	Product Launch or Milestone
Jun. 29, 2021	GitHub Copilot entered a limited technical preview as an AI pair programmer in the editor.

Earlier Product Origins (Before 2021)

Date	Product Launch or Milestone
April 2020	CapCut launched its international mobile video editor, which subsequently introduced AI captions and creative tools.
2019	Photoroom launched its AI-powered background-removal mobile app for creating clean product photos.
Apr. 21, 2018	VN launched as a mobile video editor, later incorporating automated captions and AI editing tools.
April 2018	Polish launched as InShot’s mobile photo editor, later adding AI retouching and object-removal tools.
Early 2018	Hi Translate launched its mobile cross-application translation app, which later integrated AI-powered image recognition.
2018	Remove.bg launched as an automated image-background removal service powered by computer vision.
January 2017	FaceApp became available as an AI-powered face-transformation and portrait-editing app.
2017	QuillBot launched its AI paraphrasing tool for rewriting and improving written text.
2016	Papago launched Naver’s neural-machine-translation service for multilingual text and speech.
Sep. 4, 2015	Faceu launched as a selfie and video app that developed face effects and AR camera tools.
Oct. 20, 2014	Photomath launched as a phone camera app that recognizes and solves math equations.
October 2014	YouCut appeared as a mobile video editor, later incorporating automatic captions and AI enhancement.
2013	BeautyCam and BeautyPlus launched as Meitu’s mobile selfie and portrait-editing apps, preceding their later AI generation tools.
October 2008	Meitu first launched its desktop photo editor; the mobile app arrived in 2011.