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AI models released in August 2026

18 models went live in August 2026, one of them a frontier model. Each date is the day ArtificialWatch verified the model live on a public API, not the day it was announced.

By lab: Alibaba 3 · Meta 3 · Google 2 · Zhipu AI 2 · ByteDance 1 · DeepReinforce 1 · IBM 1 · Inception 1 · Motif Technologies 1 · Tencent 1 · Upstage 1 · xAI 1

• Aug 31Mercury 2.5 · Inception
• Aug 28Hy4 · Tencentlimited preview
• Aug 26Gemini 3.5 Transcribe · Google
• Aug 26GLM-5.3 Flash · Zhipu AI$0.15 / $0.50 per 1M tokens · bench index 32.9
• Aug 26Qwen 3.8 Flash · Alibaba$0.15 / $0.47 per 1M tokens
• Aug 25Granite 4.2 · IBM
• Aug 24Wan 3.0 · Alibaba
• Aug 19Ornith 1.5 · DeepReinforce
• Aug 14GLM-5.3 · Zhipu AI$1.40 / $4.40 per 1M tokens · bench index 60
• Aug 13Gemini 3.7 Flash · Google$0.75 / $3.75 per 1M tokens
• Aug 12Grok 4.6 · xAI$2 / $6 per 1M tokens · bench index 58.1
• Aug 12Motif 3 · Motif Technologies
• Aug 9Muse Glimmer 30B · Meta
• Aug 7Seedance 2.5 · ByteDance
• Aug 7Solar Pro 4 · Upstage
• Aug 5Muse Code · Meta
• Aug 5Muse Spark 1.2 · Meta$1.25 / $4.25 per 1M tokens
• Aug 1Qwen 3.8 Max · Alibabafrontier · $2 / $6 per 1M tokens · bench index 62.9

Prices and bench index are today’s figures, not launch-day ones.

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How they compare: the LLM leaderboard, head-to-heads and API prices. When each launch was first seen, to the minute: the track record.