October 2026 Mistral AI / Text & chat / Oct 6
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. Mistral AI's very large new model is free to download under restricted terms, built for powerful servers rather than personal computers.
Ant Group / Text & chat / Oct 2
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 Ling 3.1 Flash, a large reasoning model that developers can use through a hosted service.
Microsoft / Voice & audio / Oct 1
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. Microsoft's voice model turns written text into natural-sounding speech in seconds, offered to developers and not free to download.
Microsoft / Voice & audio / Oct 1
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. Microsoft's new voice model turns written text into natural-sounding speech, available to developers through an online service rather than as a free download.
Microsoft / Voice & audio / Oct 1
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. Microsoft's first model that turns speech into text as it's spoken, offered to developers online rather than as a free download.
xAI / Video / Oct 1
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 lite video generator makes short clips from text, images, or existing video, available to developers online rather than as a free download.
September 2026 Google / Text & chat / Sep 30
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 next flagship AI model for writing, answering questions and reasoning, currently open only to limited testers rather than the public.
OpenAI / Text & chat / Sep 29
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-6.1 Sol text model, offered at about a fifth of the price of its top model, for developers to build apps with.
Anthropic / Text & chat / Sep 28
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 Sonnet 5.5 writes and answers questions in text, available to developers through an online service rather than as a free download.
Z.ai / Text & chat / Sep 23
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. A faster version of Zhipu's GLM-5.3 model that writes text about one and a half to two times quicker, offered through online services.
Anthropic / Text & chat / Sep 22
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 5.5 writes text and answers questions, offered to developers and paying users, not free to download.
OpenAI / Text & chat / Sep 22
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 GPT-6 Sol, a new text model that writes and answers questions, launched alongside a smaller Luna version and available to developers online.
Google / Voice & audio / Sep 22
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. Google's text-to-speech models that read written text aloud, in a standard and a lighter version for developers.
OpenAI / Text & chat / Sep 22
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 Luna model writes text and answers questions, offered to developers and not free to download.
Black Forest Labs / Video / Sep 22
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. Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Action is a free-to-download model for generating video and controlling robots, with restricted use terms.
OpenAI / Text & chat / Sep 22
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. OpenAI's Decisions API lets developers get structured, fixed-format answers from its GPT-6 Luna model to build more responsive apps.
Xiaomi / Text & chat / Sep 21
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. Xiaomi released a free-to-download AI model that works well for developers building AI assistants, a lighter version alongside its top model.
Xiaomi / Text & chat / Sep 21
MajorMajor release: A new general-purpose AI model from a leading lab, the kind behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: a new flagship or generation. Xiaomi, the phone maker, released its new top AI model, built for demanding work and available through an online service for developers.
xAI / Text & chat / Sep 21
MajorMajor release: A new general-purpose AI model from a leading lab, the kind behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: a new flagship or generation. xAI's Grok 4.7 is a text model for writing and answering questions, offered to developers and not free to download.
Xiaomi / Text & chat / Sep 21
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. A faster version of Xiaomi's top AI model, offered through an online service for developers who need quick answers.
Z.ai / Text & chat / Sep 18
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. A very fast version of Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash model that can read images and video, offered through online services for developers.
StepFun / Text & chat / Sep 18
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. StepFun's Step 5 Preview is a very large text model for writing and answering questions, offered to developers and not free to download.
Qwen / Text & chat / Sep 17
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 fast AI model that can understand audio and video directly, suited to summarizing recordings and clips, for developers.
Google / Text & chat / Sep 17
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. An updated version of Google's Antigravity AI helper that completes multi-step tasks for developers.
Google / Voice & audio / Sep 15
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. Google's live voice AI for real-time conversation, with a version that thinks longer, now available to developers.
Ant Group / Text & chat / Sep 10
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 version of its Ling chat model that can read and understand pictures, for developers building assistants.
OpenAI / Voice & audio / Sep 10
NotableNotable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab. OpenAI's live voice model, now open to developers who want to build talking AI features.
DeepSeek / Text & chat / Sep 9
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 V4.1 Flash is a very large text model for writing and answering questions, free to download, and needs powerful servers to run.
OpenAI / Image / Sep 8
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 image tool, ChatGPT Images 2.5, creates and edits pictures inside ChatGPT and is not free to download.
OpenAI / Image / Sep 8
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 Flare creates and edits pictures from written instructions, offered to developers and not free to download.