The archive
Every model release from the labs trckr follows, newest first: spotted live since November 2026, and from the archive back to 2018.
MetaText & chat
MajorMajor release: A new general-purpose AI model from a leading lab, the kind behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: a new flagship or generation.Meta's new coding tool and updated Muse Spark model, available to developers through an API and not free to download.
ByteDance SeedText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.ByteDance's Seed team has released a voice and video model that can listen, watch and talk at once, reached through hosted access rather than a download.
DeepSeekText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenOpen model: Its files are public (open weights), so anyone can download it and run it on their own computer, usually for free.DeepSeek's updated free-to-download model that is better at completing agent-style tasks and coding, free for anyone to use under the MIT license.
GoogleSpecialist
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.A Google AI model built to help robots understand their surroundings and plan actions, offered in preview to developers.
xAIVoice & audio
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.xAI's new voice model that can talk and transcribe speech, available to developers through an API and not free to download.
OpenAIVoice & audio
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenAI's new live speech-to-text service writes out speech as it happens, offered to developers through its paid API rather than as a free download.
OpenAIVoice & audio
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenAI's new speech-to-text service turns spoken audio into written text, offered to developers through its paid API rather than as a free download.
QwenText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.7 Flash, an AI that writes text and answers questions, available to developers through a paid API rather than as a free download.
AnthropicText & chat
MajorMajor release: A new general-purpose AI model from a leading lab, the kind behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: a new flagship or generation.Anthropic's new Claude Opus 5 is a top-tier AI for writing, answering questions and chatting, available to developers and paying users rather than as a free download.
Ant GroupText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Ant Group's AI team released a large chat model designed to run agent-style tasks efficiently, available to developers through a hosted service.
MicrosoftVoice & audio
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Microsoft's MAI-Voice-2-Flash turns written text into spoken voice, offered to developers through an API rather than as a free download.
MicrosoftImage
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5-Pro creates and edits pictures from text descriptions, offered to developers through an API rather than as a free download.
GoogleText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a lighter, lower-cost AI for answering questions and writing text, offered to developers through an API rather than as a free download.
GoogleText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash is a fast AI for answering questions and writing text, offered to developers through an API rather than as a free download.
QwenText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Alibaba's Qwen team has announced Qwen 3.8 Max, a very large model for coding and everyday work, available only through paid access for developers rather than as a free download.
Mistral AISpecialist
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.An updated Mistral AI tool that reads text from scanned documents and images, offered to developers.
Moonshot AIText & chat
MajorMajor release: A new general-purpose AI model from a leading lab, the kind behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: a new flagship or generation.OpenOpen model: Its files are public (open weights), so anyone can download it and run it on their own computer, usually for free.Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a very large model that can read text, images and video, free to download for research and non-commercial use and aimed at long coding and knowledge-work tasks.
MetaText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenAIText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenAIText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenAIText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.ByteDance SeedImage
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.xAIText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.MetaImage
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenAIVoice & audio
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.An updated OpenAI voice model that listens and replies more smoothly, offered to developers in a full and a smaller version.
TencentText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenOpen model: Its files are public (open weights), so anyone can download it and run it on their own computer, usually for free.Mistral AIText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Mistral AI released an updated model that helps mathematicians and programmers write and check formal proofs, available to developers through Mistral's service.
GoogleImage
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.A quick, low-cost image maker from Google, aimed at developers who need to generate many pictures fast.
GoogleText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Google's fast preview model in its Omni family, offered to developers building apps that use Gemini.
AnthropicText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.
