Timeline
Every major AI release.
The main releases from the labs that matter most, since 2018. Each square is a release; the bigger, labelled ones are major. Scroll back in time, narrow it down with the filters, hover over a square for its details, or tap it to open the model.
753 releases · 16 labs
Major NotableOpen model: Its files are public (open weights), so anyone can download it and run it on their own computer, usually for free. Next, at its usual pace
Expected next
If each lab keeps the pace of its last ten releases, these are the dates to watch.
- ByteDance SeedAny day nowUsually every ~56 days
- QwenAny day nowUsually every ~15 days
- xAIAny day nowUsually every ~21 days
- DeepSeekAny day nowUsually every ~59 days
- GoogleWed, Nov 11Usually every ~6 days
- OpenAISat, Nov 14Usually every ~9 days
- MicrosoftTue, Nov 17Usually every ~21 days
- Mistral AISat, Nov 28Usually every ~39 days
- AnthropicMon, Nov 30Usually every ~21 days
- Z.aiTue, Dec 1Usually every ~29 days
- MetaSun, Dec 6Usually every ~27 days
- MiniMaxTue, Dec 15Usually every ~57 days
Estimated from each lab's usual gap between releases. The labs don't announce these dates.
Dig deeper
Every release has its own page: what it is, how it was released and where to try it.
Releases since November 2026 are trckr's own, spotted live. Earlier ones come from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0), limited to the main releases from the labs trckr follows.