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AI models released in 2026

94 models ArtificialWatch has logged as live on a public API in 2026 so far, 17 of them frontier releases, from 38 labs. Each date is the day the model went live, not the day it was announced. Coverage is fullest from July 2026; earlier months list fewer models, so treat their counts as a floor.

By month

By lab

Google 11 · Anthropic 10 · Meta 8 · OpenAI 8 · xAI 6 · Alibaba 3 · Ant Group 3 · Inception 3 · MiniMax 3 · NVIDIA 3 · Zhipu AI 3 · Black Forest Labs 2 · Cohere 2 · DeepSeek 2 · Moonshot 2 · Thinking Machines 2 · Xiaomi 2 · ByteDance 1 · Circuit & Chisel 1 · DeepReinforce 1 · Elorian 1 · Fireworks AI 1 · IBM 1 · IFM 1 · Meituan 1 · Mistral 1 · Motif Technologies 1 · NEX AGI 1 · Perceptron 1 · PrismML 1 · Recursive 1 · Reflection AI 1 · Sakana AI 1 · Sapiens AI 1 · Shanghai AI Lab 1 · StepFun 1 · Tencent 1 · Upstage 1

Frontier releases

• Oct 23Kimi K3.1 Pro · Moonshot
• Oct 13Gemini 4 · Google
• Oct 12Muse Wonder · Meta
• Sep 29GPT-6.1 Sol · OpenAI
• Sep 28Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Anthropic
• Sep 22Claude Opus 5.5 · Anthropic
• Sep 21Grok 4.7 · xAI
• Sep 3GPT-6 Astra · OpenAI
• Sep 1Fable 5.1 · Anthropic
• Sep 1Mythos 5.1 · Anthropic
• Aug 1Qwen 3.8 Max · Alibaba
• Jul 24Claude Opus 5 · Anthropic
• Jul 9ChatGPT-5.6 · OpenAI
• Jul 1Fable 5 · Anthropic
• Jun 30Claude Sonnet 5 · Anthropic
• Jun 9Mythos 5 · Anthropic
• Apr 24GPT-5.5 · OpenAI

Every release, newest first: new AI model releases. On one chart, a lane per lab: the release timeline. The third quarter in numbers: Q3 2026. The data, free to reuse: CSV · JSON.