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Every AI model release, in order.

The model releases of the 13 ranked labs and the watchlist, newest first, with context windows and list prices. Pick a lab for its full history: features, outages, usage limits and prices too.

Major releases

New generations, flagships and open-weight models. Each lab's page has every model.

September 2026

  1. month
    OpenAIGPT-6 Luna releasedEfficient · 1.05M context · $0.10 in / $0.50 out per 1M
  2. month
    OpenAIGPT-6 Sol releasedFrontier · 1.05M context · $2.00 in / $10.00 out per 1M
  3. month
    OpenAIGPT-6 Astra releasedFrontier · 1.05M context · $10.00 in / $50.00 out per 1M
  4. month
    AnthropicClaude Opus 5.5 releasedFlagship · 1M context · $4.00 in / $20.00 out per 1M
  5. month
    AnthropicClaude Fable 5.1 releasedFrontier · 1M context · $10.00 in / $50.00 out per 1M
  6. month
    GoogleGemini 3.8 Flash releasedBalanced · 1M context · $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M
  7. month
    xAIGrok 4.7 releasedFrontier · 500K context · $1.60 in / $4.80 out per 1M
  8. month
    MetaMuse Spark 1.3 releasedFrontier · 1M context · $1.25 in / $4.25 out per 1M
  9. month
    AlibabaQwen3.8 Omni Flash releasedEfficient · 1M context · $0.15 in / $0.47 out per 1M
  10. month
    AlibabaQwen3.8 Max releasedFlagship · 1M context · $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M
  11. month
    DeepSeekDeepSeek V4.1 Flash releasedBalanced · 1M context · $0.15 in / $0.60 out per 1M
  12. month
    Z.aiGLM 5.3 FlashX releasedEfficient · 1M context · $0.37 in / $1.25 out per 1M

August 2026

  1. 19 Aug
    GoogleGoogle publishes tipsv1-s14 vision model on Hugging FaceModels · New open-weight model
  2. 19 Aug
    TencentTencent lists Hy-MT2-7B translation model on OpenRouterModels · New flagship model
  3. 18 Aug
    TencentTencent releases AuK text-to-speech model on Hugging FaceModels · New open-weight model
  4. 17 Aug
    TencentTencent publishes EVIE-Preview-4.5B on Hugging FaceModels · New open-weight model
  5. 14 Aug
    CohereCohere releases North Small Translate 1.0 fp8 on Hugging FaceModels · New open-weight model
  6. 14 Aug
    MetaMeta releases Glimmer open-weight AI modelModels · New open-weight model
  7. 14 Aug
    Z.aiZ.ai releases GLM-5.3 for frontier codingModels · New model generation from a lab · 1.25M context · $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M
  8. 14 Aug
    TencentTencent publishes UI-Mate-27B on Hugging FaceModels · New open-weight model
  9. 13 Aug
    MiniMaxMiniMax releases Music 3.0Models · New-generation model
  10. 12 Aug
    AlibabaQwen3.8-27B-FP8 quantized model published on Hugging FaceModels · New-generation model · 1M context · $0.42 in / $2.55 out per 1M
  11. 11 Aug
    NVIDIANVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning listed on OpenRouterModels · New-generation model
  12. 10 Aug
    MetaMeta releases Muse Glimmer, first open model from Superintelligence LabsModels · New open-weight model
  13. 10 Aug
    CohereCohere releases North Micro Vision Instruct on Hugging FaceModels · New open-weight model
  14. 7 Aug
    DeepSeekDeepSeek releases V4 Pro model on Hugging FaceModels · New model generation from a lab
  15. 7 Aug
    MiniMaxMiniMax releases MiniMax-Music3 music generation model on Hugging FaceModels · New open-weight model
  16. 4 Aug
    MistralMistral introduces ShieldstralModels · New open-weight model
  17. 3 Aug
    AlibabaQwen3.8-27B released on Hugging FaceModels · New model generation from a lab · 1M context · $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M
  18. 1 Aug
    OpenAIOpenAI announces Astra, a next major model familyModels · New model generation from a lab
  19. month
    GoogleGemini 3.7 Flash releasedBalanced · 1M context · $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M
  20. month
    xAIGrok 4.6 releasedFrontier · 500K context · $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M
  21. month
    MetaMuse Glimmer 30B releasedBalanced · 128K context
  22. month
    AlibabaQwen3.8 Flash releasedEfficient · 1M context · $0.15 in / $0.47 out per 1M
  23. month
    Z.aiGLM 5.3 Flash releasedEfficient · 1.25M context · $0.15 in / $0.50 out per 1M
  24. month
    TencentHy4 preview releasedBalanced · 1M context · $0.83 in / $2.50 out per 1M

July 2026

  1. 31 Jul
    DeepSeekDeepSeek releases V4 Flash model on Hugging FaceModels · New-generation model · 1M context · $0.14 in / $0.28 out per 1M · retired
  2. 30 Jul
    GoogleGoogle launches Gemini Robotics ER 2 for robot reasoningModels · New-generation model
  3. 28 Jul
    GoogleGoogle launches Gemini Robotics 2 for whole body robot controlModels · New-generation model
  4. 28 Jul
    MiniMaxMiniMax publishes MiniMax-H3 video model on Hugging FaceModels · New-generation model
  5. 25 Jul
    AnthropicAnthropic releases Claude Opus 5, tops Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexModels · New model generation from a lab · 1M context · $5.00 in / $25.00 out per 1M
  6. month
    OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol releasedFrontier · 1M context · $4.00 in / $20.00 out per 1M
  7. month
    OpenAIGPT-5.6 Terra releasedBalanced · 1M context · $2.50 in / $15.00 out per 1M
  8. month
    OpenAIGPT-5.6 Luna releasedEfficient · 1M context · $1.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M
  9. month
    GoogleGemini 3.6 Flash releasedBalanced · 1M context · $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M
  10. month
    GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash-Lite releasedEfficient · 1M context · $0.30 in / $2.50 out per 1M
  11. month
    GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash Cyber releasedEnterprise · 1M context
  12. month
    xAIGrok 4.5 releasedFrontier · 500K context · $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M
  13. month
    AlibabaQwen3.7 Flash releasedEfficient · 1M context · $0.03 in / $0.13 out per 1M
  14. month
    MoonshotKimi K3 releasedFrontier · 1M context · $3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M
  15. month
    TencentHunyuan Hy3 releasedFrontier · 256K context · $0.0825 in / $0.33 out per 1M

June 2026

  1. month
    AnthropicClaude Fable 5 releasedFrontier · 1M context · $10.00 in / $50.00 out per 1M
  2. month
    AnthropicClaude Mythos 5 releasedEnterprise · 1M context · $10.00 in / $50.00 out per 1M
  3. month
    AnthropicClaude Sonnet 5 releasedBalanced · 1M context · $2.00 in / $10.00 out per 1M
  4. month
    MoonshotKimi K2.7-Code releasedOpen · 256K context · $0.95 in / $4.00 out per 1M
  5. month
    Z.aiGLM-5.2 releasedFrontier · 1M context · $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M
  6. month
    MiniMaxMiniMax-M3 releasedFrontier · 1M context · $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M

May 2026

  1. month
    AnthropicClaude Opus 4.8 releasedFlagship · 1M context · $5.00 in / $25.00 out per 1M
  2. month
    GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash releasedBalanced · 1M context · $1.50 in / $9.00 out per 1M
  3. month
    GoogleGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite releasedLegacy · 1M context · $0.25 in / $1.50 out per 1M · retired
  4. month
    xAIGrok Build 0.1 releasedBalanced · 256K context · $1.00 in / $2.00 out per 1M
  5. month
    CohereCommand A+ releasedFrontier · 128K context · $0.30 in / $1.50 out per 1M

April 2026

  1. month
    OpenAIGPT-5.5 releasedFlagship · 1M context · $5.00 in / $30.00 out per 1M
  2. month
    OpenAIGPT-5.5 Pro releasedReasoning · 1M context · $30.00 in / $180.00 out per 1M
  3. month
    AnthropicClaude Opus 4.7 releasedLegacy · 1M context · $5.00 in / $25.00 out per 1M · retired
  4. month
    xAIGrok 4.3 releasedFlagship · 1M context · $1.25 in / $2.50 out per 1M
  5. month
    DeepSeekDeepSeek-V4-Pro releasedFlagship · 1M context · $0.66 in / $1.98 out per 1M · retired
  6. month
    MoonshotKimi K2.6 releasedFlagship · 256K context · $0.95 in / $4.00 out per 1M
  7. month
    Z.aiGLM-5V-Turbo releasedBalanced · 200K context · $1.20 in / $4.00 out per 1M
  8. month
    Z.aiGLM-5.1 releasedReasoning · 1M context · $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M
  9. month
    MistralMistral Medium 3.5 releasedFrontier · 256K context · $1.50 in / $7.50 out per 1M

March 2026

  1. month
    OpenAIGPT-5.4 mini releasedEfficient · 1M context · $0.75 in / $4.50 out per 1M
  2. month
    OpenAIGPT-5.4 nano releasedEfficient · 1M context · $0.20 in / $1.25 out per 1M
  3. month
    xAIGrok 4.20 releasedReasoning · 2M context · $1.25 in / $2.50 out per 1M

February 2026

  1. month
    AnthropicClaude Opus 4.6 releasedLegacy · 1M context · $5.00 in / $25.00 out per 1M · retired
  2. month
    AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.6 releasedLegacy · 1M context · $3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M · retired
  3. month
    Z.aiGLM-5 releasedOpen · 1M context
  4. month
    MiniMaxMiniMax-M2.5 releasedBalanced · 204K context · $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M

January 2026

  1. month
    MoonshotKimi K2.5 releasedBalanced · 256K context · $0.60 in / $3.00 out per 1M · retired

2026, month not published

  1. month
    AlibabaQwen3-Coder-Next releasedOpen · 256K context
  2. month
    AlibabaQwen3.6-27B releasedOpen · 256K context
  3. month
    Z.aiGLM-5-Turbo releasedBalanced · 200K context · $1.20 in / $4.00 out per 1M
  4. month
    MiniMaxSpeech 2.5 releasedEnterprise · N/A context
  5. month
    MiniMaxMusic 2.6 releasedEnterprise · N/A context
  6. month
    TencentHunyuanImage 3.0 releasedOpen · N/A context

December 2025

  1. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.7 releasedOpen · 200K context · $0.60 in / $2.20 out per 1M
  2. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.7-Flash releasedEfficient · 128K context
  3. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.6V releasedBalanced · 128K context · $0.30 in / $0.90 out per 1M
  4. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.6V-Flash releasedEfficient · 128K context
  5. month
    MistralMistral Large 3 releasedFlagship · 256K context · $0.50 in / $1.50 out per 1M
  6. month
    MistralMistral Small 4 releasedBalanced · 256K context · $0.15 in / $0.60 out per 1M
  7. month
    MistralMinistral 3 14B releasedEfficient · 128K context
  8. month
    MiniMaxMiniMax-M2.1 releasedOpen · 204K context · $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M

November 2025

  1. month
    AnthropicClaude Opus 4.5 releasedLegacy · 200K context · $5.00 in / $25.00 out per 1M · retired
  2. month
    MoonshotKimi K2 Thinking releasedReasoning · 256K context · retired

October 2025

  1. month
    AnthropicClaude Haiku 4.5 releasedEfficient · 200K context · $1.00 in / $5.00 out per 1M
  2. month
    MiniMaxMiniMax-M2 releasedOpen · 204K context · $0.26 in / $1.02 out per 1M

September 2025

  1. month
    AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.5 releasedLegacy · 200K context · $3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M · retired
  2. month
    AlibabaQwen3-Max releasedFlagship · 256K context · $0.78 in / $3.90 out per 1M
  3. month
    AlibabaQwen-Plus releasedBalanced · 1M context · $0.26 in / $0.78 out per 1M
  4. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.6 releasedLegacy · 200K context · $0.60 in / $2.20 out per 1M

August 2025

  1. month
    OpenAIgpt-oss-120b releasedOpen · 128K context
  2. month
    OpenAIgpt-oss-20b releasedOpen · 128K context
  3. month
    OpenAIGPT-5 releasedLegacy · 400K context · $1.25 in / $10.00 out per 1M · retired
  4. month
    AnthropicClaude Opus 4.1 releasedLegacy · 200K context · $15.00 in / $75.00 out per 1M · retired
  5. month
    DeepSeekDeepSeek-V3.1 releasedLegacy · 128K context
  6. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.5V releasedLegacy · 131K context · $0.60 in / $1.80 out per 1M
  7. month
    MistralCodestral releasedEfficient · 256K context · $0.30 in / $0.90 out per 1M
  8. month
    CohereCommand A Reasoning releasedReasoning · 256K context

July 2025

  1. month
    GoogleGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite releasedLegacy · 1M context · $0.10 in / $0.40 out per 1M · retired
  2. month
    xAIGrok 4 releasedLegacy · 256K context · $3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M · retired
  3. month
    AlibabaQwen3-Coder-480B-A35B releasedOpen · 256K context
  4. month
    MoonshotKimi K2 (Instruct) releasedOpen · 128K context · retired
  5. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.5 releasedLegacy · 131K context · $0.60 in / $2.20 out per 1M
  6. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.5-Air releasedEfficient · 131K context · $0.20 in / $1.10 out per 1M
  7. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.5-X releasedFlagship · 131K context · $2.20 in / $8.90 out per 1M
  8. month
    Z.aiGLM-4.5-Flash releasedEfficient · 131K context
  9. month
    MistralVoxtral Mini releasedEfficient · 32K context
  10. month
    CohereCommand A Vision releasedEnterprise · 128K context

June 2025

  1. month
    MiniMaxMiniMax-M1 releasedReasoning · 1M context · $0.40 in / $2.20 out per 1M

April 2025

  1. month
    OpenAIo3 releasedReasoning · 200K context · $2.00 in / $8.00 out per 1M
  2. month
    OpenAIGPT-4.1 releasedLegacy · 1M context · $2.00 in / $8.00 out per 1M · retired
  3. month
    MetaLlama 4 Maverick releasedFlagship · 1M context
  4. month
    MetaLlama 4 Scout releasedEfficient · 10M context
  5. month
    AlibabaQwen3-235B-A22B releasedOpen · 256K context
  6. month
    CohereEmbed 4 releasedEnterprise · 128K context · $0.12 in / N/A out per 1M

March 2025

  1. month
    GoogleGemini 2.5 Pro releasedLegacy · 1M context · $1.25 in / $10.00 out per 1M · retired
  2. month
    CohereCommand A releasedFlagship · 256K context · $2.50 in / $10.00 out per 1M
  3. month
    TencentHunyuan-T1 releasedReasoning · 64K context

February 2025

  1. month
    xAIGrok 3 releasedLegacy · 131K context · $3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M · retired

January 2025

  1. month
    AlibabaQwen2.5-Max releasedLegacy · 32K context
  2. month
    DeepSeekDeepSeek-R1 releasedLegacy · 128K context
  3. month
    MiniMaxMiniMax-Text-01 releasedOpen · 4M context
  4. month
    MiniMaxMiniMax-VL-01 releasedOpen · 1M context

2025, month not published

  1. month
    AlibabaQwen-Flash releasedEfficient · 1M context · $0.05 in / $0.40 out per 1M
  2. month
    AlibabaQwen3-VL releasedOpen · 256K context
  3. month
    MistralMagistral Medium releasedReasoning · 128K context · retired
  4. month
    MistralMagistral Small releasedReasoning · 128K context · retired
  5. month
    MistralDevstral Medium releasedBalanced · 256K context · $0.40 in / $2.00 out per 1M
  6. month
    MistralDevstral Small releasedOpen · 256K context · $0.10 in / $0.30 out per 1M
  7. month
    MiniMaxHailuo 02 releasedEnterprise · N/A context
  8. month
    TencentHunyuan-TurboS releasedFlagship · 256K context · $0.11 in / $0.28 out per 1M
  9. month
    TencentHunyuan-A13B releasedOpen · 256K context
  10. month
    TencentHunyuan3D 2.5 releasedOpen · N/A context

December 2024

  1. month
    MetaLlama 3.3 70B releasedLegacy · 128K context
  2. month
    CohereCommand R7B releasedEfficient · 128K context · $0.0375 in / $0.15 out per 1M
  3. month
    CohereRerank 3.5 releasedEnterprise · N/A context · $2.00 per 1K searches in / N/A out per 1M
  4. month
    TencentHunyuanVideo releasedOpen · N/A context

November 2024

  1. month
    MistralMistral Large 2 releasedLegacy · 128K context · $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M
  2. month
    TencentHunyuan-Large releasedOpen · 256K context

October 2024

  1. month
    AnthropicClaude Haiku 3.5 releasedLegacy · 200K context · $0.80 in / $4.00 out per 1M · retired

September 2024

  1. month
    MetaLlama 3.2 90B Vision releasedLegacy · 128K context
  2. month
    MetaLlama 3.2 11B Vision releasedLegacy · 128K context
  3. month
    MetaLlama 3.2 3B releasedLegacy · 128K context
  4. month
    MistralPixtral 12B releasedOpen · 128K context · $0.15 in / $0.15 out per 1M

August 2024

  1. month
    CohereCommand R+ releasedLegacy · 128K context · $2.50 in / $10.00 out per 1M
  2. month
    CohereCommand R releasedLegacy · 128K context · $0.15 in / $0.60 out per 1M

July 2024

  1. month
    MetaLlama 3.1 405B releasedLegacy · 128K context
  2. month
    MetaLlama 3.1 8B releasedLegacy · 128K context

April 2024

  1. month
    MiniMaxabab6.5s releasedLegacy · 200K context · retired

2024, month not published

  1. month
    Moonshotmoonshot-v1-128k releasedLegacy · 128K context · $2.00 in / $5.00 out per 1M · retired
  2. month
    Moonshotmoonshot-v1-32k releasedLegacy · 32K context · $1.00 in / $3.00 out per 1M · retired
  3. month
    Moonshotmoonshot-v1-8k releasedLegacy · 8K context · $0.20 in / $2.00 out per 1M · retired
  4. month
    Moonshotmoonshot-v1-128k-vision-preview releasedLegacy · 128K context · $2.00 in / $5.00 out per 1M · retired
  5. month
    Z.aiGLM-4-Plus releasedLegacy · 128K context · retired
  6. month
    Z.aiGLM-4-9B releasedLegacy · 128K context · retired
  7. month
    TencentHunyuan-Standard releasedBalanced · 256K context
  8. month
    TencentHunyuan-Lite releasedEfficient · 256K context
  9. month
    TencentHunyuan-Turbo releasedLegacy · 256K context · retired
  10. month
    TencentHunyuan-Vision releasedBalanced · 32K context

From July 2026 each release links to its story on the Wire, dated to the day. Earlier releases come from our models catalogue, dated to the month.