The archive
Every model release from the labs trckr follows, newest first: spotted live since November 2026, and from the archive back to 2018.
OpenAIImage
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.5 Sunburst creates and edits pictures from written instructions, offered to developers and not free to 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-2.6-Flash makes and edits pictures from text descriptions, offered to developers online rather than as a 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-2.6 creates and edits pictures from text descriptions, offered to developers online rather than as a download.
GoogleVoice & audio
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Google's music-making AI, now fully available to developers who want to build music generation into their apps.
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-Transcribe-2 turns recorded speech into written text and can identify who is speaking, offered to developers online.
OpenAIText & 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.OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra is a major chatbot model for writing and answering questions, offered to developers online.
GoogleText & 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.Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash is a fast chatbot model that writes, answers questions, and understands images and video, offered to developers online.
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 Muse Spark 1.3 is a major chatbot model for writing and answering questions, offered to developers online.
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 Claude Fable 5.1 is a new chatbot model for writing and answering questions, released alongside Claude Mythos 5.1 for developers online.
IBMText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.IBM, a large technology company, released this mid-sized AI model that can reason through problems, write code and chat in many languages.
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.Tencent's new Hy4 preview is a very large model free to download, aimed at people building tools for writing and answering questions, and it needs powerful servers to run.
GoogleVideo
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Google's video maker, which creates and edits short clips from text or pictures, now generally available.
OpenAIVoice & audio
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.A speech-to-text tool from OpenAI that writes down conversations and marks which person said each part, for developers.
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 released a quick, lower-cost AI model that reads images and video and helps with coding and documents, for developers.
GoogleVoice & audio
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Google's speech-to-text model, now fully released for developers who want apps to turn spoken words into written text.
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.Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash is a large model free to download, aimed at developers who want strong answers at a lower running cost.
TencentText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Tencent's translation model is small enough to run on a good desktop or laptop and handles many languages, including some Chinese dialects.
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.Z.ai's GLM-5.3 is a very large model focused on coding and cyber tasks, free to download under restricted terms and needing powerful servers to run.
QwenText & 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.Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B is free to download and can read images as well as text, though it needs a strong computer to run.
MicrosoftText & chat
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-Cyber-1-Flash is a hosted model for finding and exploiting software weaknesses and for coding, offered inside Microsoft's MDASH platform.
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 V4 Pro 0813 is a very large official release, free to download under the MIT license, aimed at developers building tools that carry out multistep tasks.
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 3.7 Flash is a hosted model for answering questions and writing text, available to developers through Google's services.
xAIText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.xAI's Grok 4.6 is a very large hosted model for answering questions and writing text, available to developers through xAI's services.
Liquid AIText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Liquid AI, a small AI company, made this small model for building helpers that read documents and pull out information. It is light enough to run on everyday devices.
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 free-to-download AI built for speed, meant for developers running many automated tasks at once.
MicrosoftText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.Microsoft's faster, cheaper coding model, available only through its developer access for building software tools.
OpenAIText & chat
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.OpenAI's cyber-focused model for security defenders, available only to developers through access controls, and able to help find and exploit software weaknesses.
MetaText & 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.Meta's free-to-download model that can run on a personal device, built to carry out tasks and help with coding.
QwenText & 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.Alibaba's Qwen team has released a very large free-to-download model for developers, aimed at writing code and handling longer multi-step tasks, under restricted terms.
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.
