The archive
Every model release from the labs trckr follows, newest first: spotted live since November 2026, and from the archive back to 2018.
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 small, fast chat model meant for quick assistants that can hold back-and-forth conversations.
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.
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.
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.
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.xAIText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.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.
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.MeituanText & 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.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 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 SeedText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Z.aiText & 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.Moonshot AIText & 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.GoogleText & 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.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.CohereText & 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.NVIDIAText & 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.NVIDIA released a very large free-to-download AI for reasoning and coordinating tasks, meant for companies and developers with powerful servers.
