LLM Releases

Changelog

Last updated Jun 17, 2026

Everything, in order

A single feed of releases, updates, deprecations, and retractions across every lab we track. Each item links to the model and its primary source.

June 2026

  1. Released
    Z.ai releases GLM-5.2 with a 1M-token context
    Z.ai (Zhipu AI)source โ†—

    MIT-licensed GLM flagship focused on long-horizon coding, agentic engineering, and IndexShare sparse-attention reuse.

  2. Released
    MiniMax releases MiniMax-M3
    MiniMaxsource โ†—

    Native multimodal 428B/23B-active model with one-million-token context and MiniMax Sparse Attention.

  3. Withdrawn
    US government orders Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5
    Anthropicsource โ†—

    Access suspended three days after launch under an export-control directive citing national security.

  4. Announced
    GPT-5.6 announced with a 1.5M-token context window
    OpenAIsource โ†—

    OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6, claiming the largest context window of any frontier model.

  5. Released
    Claude Fable 5 released โ€” first public Mythos-class model
    Anthropicsource โ†—

    Available across the Claude API, AWS, and Microsoft Foundry.

  6. Released
    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B
    NVIDIAsource โ†—

    Largest Nemotron 3 model appears on NVIDIA NIM with downloadable weights, 1M context, and agentic reasoning positioning.

May 2026

  1. Released
    Claude Opus 4.8 released
    Anthropicsource โ†—

    Agentic upgrades and stronger long-running task performance.

  2. Released
    MiniMax releases MiniMax-M2.7
    MiniMaxsource โ†—

    Open-weight agentic model focused on software engineering, productivity tasks, and model self-evolution workflows.

  3. Announced
    Gemini 3.5 Pro announced at Google I/O 2026
    Google DeepMindsource โ†—
  4. Released
    Qwen releases Qwen3.6-27B
    Alibaba (Qwen)source โ†—
  5. Retired
    Claude 3.7 Sonnet retired
    Anthropicsource โ†—

    Endpoint shut down as part of Anthropic's 2026 deprecation calendar.

  6. Released
    Grok 4.3 generally available
    xAIsource โ†—

    1M-token context at $1.25/$2.50 per million tokens; also live on Microsoft Foundry.

April 2026

  1. Released
  2. Released
    DeepSeek V4-Pro preview released with 1M context
    DeepSeeksource โ†—

    DeepSeek introduced the V4 preview series under MIT, led by V4-Pro at 1.6T total / 49B active parameters.

  3. Released
    Tencent releases Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct
    Tencent Hunyuansource โ†—

    80B/13B-active Hunyuan MoE model released with open weights and agentic tool-use support.

  4. Released
  5. Announced
    Anthropic discloses Claude Mythos but withholds public release
    Anthropicsource โ†—

    Frontier model shipped only to ~50 defensive-security partners via Project Glasswing.

  6. Retired
    GPT-4o fully retired from ChatGPT
    OpenAIsource โ†—

    Removed from all ChatGPT plans after a Feb 13 deprecation notice.

  7. Released
    Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4
    Google DeepMindsource โ†—

    Gemma 4 introduces advanced reasoning open models in 12B, 26B, and 31B sizes.

March 2026

  1. Released
    Kimi K2.6 released
    Moonshot AIsource โ†—
  2. Released
    Mistral Medium 3.5 released
    Mistral AIsource โ†—
  3. Released
  4. Released
  5. Released
    Sarvam AI open-sources Sarvam-105B
    Sarvam AIsource โ†—

    Apache-2.0 MoE model focused on reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and Indian-language performance.

  6. Released

February 2026

  1. Released
  2. Released
    Gemini 3.1 Pro generally available
    Google DeepMindsource โ†—
  3. Released
  4. Released
  5. Released

January 2026

  1. Released

December 2025

  1. Released
    Ai2 releases OLMo 3 Think 32B as a fully open reasoning model
    Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)source โ†—
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  6. Released

September 2025

  1. Released
  2. Released
  3. Updated
  4. Released

August 2025

  1. Released
  2. Released
  3. Released
    Z.ai releases GLM-4.5V for multimodal reasoning
    Z.ai (Zhipu AI)source โ†—

July 2025

  1. Released
    TII releases Falcon-H1 hybrid attention-SSM models
    Technology Innovation Institutesource โ†—
  2. Released
    Z.ai releases GLM-4.5 under MIT
    Z.ai (Zhipu AI)source โ†—
  3. Released
  4. Released
    LG AI Research releases EXAONE 4.0 32B
    LG AI Researchsource โ†—

June 2025

  1. Released
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May 2025

  1. Released

April 2025

  1. Released
    Meta releases Llama 4 Maverick
    Meta AIsource โ†—
  2. Released
    Meta releases Llama 4 Scout
    Meta AIsource โ†—

March 2025

  1. Released
  2. Released
    Cohere releases Command A
    Coheresource โ†—
  3. Released
    Ai2 releases OLMo 2 32B โ€” fully open weights, data, and code
    Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)source โ†—

January 2025

  1. Released
  2. Released
    DeepSeek-R1 released under MIT
    DeepSeeksource โ†—

December 2024

  1. Released
  2. Released
  3. Released
    TII releases the Falcon 3 small-model family
    Technology Innovation Institutesource โ†—
  4. Released
    Cohere releases Command R7B
    Coheresource โ†—
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November 2024

  1. Released

October 2024

  1. Released

August 2024

  1. Released

December 2023

  1. Released
    Mistral releases Mixtral 8x7B (open MoE)
    Mistral AIsource โ†—
  2. Released
    Google announces Gemini 1.0
    Google DeepMindsource โ†—

November 2023

  1. Released
    Alibaba open-sources Qwen-72B
    Alibaba (Qwen)source โ†—
  2. Released
    01.AI releases Yi-34B
    01.AIsource โ†—

September 2023

  1. Released
    Mistral AI releases Mistral 7B
    Mistral AIsource โ†—
  2. Released
    TII releases Falcon 180B
    Technology Innovation Institutesource โ†—

July 2023

  1. Released
  2. Released

March 2023

  1. Released
    OpenAI releases GPT-4
    OpenAIsource โ†—

February 2023

  1. Released
    Meta releases LLaMA to researchers
    Meta AIsource โ†—

November 2022

  1. Updated
    ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) launches and reaches 100M users
    OpenAIsource โ†—

    The consumer launch that ignited the modern LLM race.

  2. Withdrawn
    Meta pulls the Galactica demo after three days
    Meta AIsource โ†—

    Withdrawn following criticism of confident but inaccurate scientific output.

  3. Released

July 2022

  1. Released

April 2022

  1. Released
    Google announces PaLM (540B)
    Google DeepMindsource โ†—

June 2020

  1. Released
    OpenAI introduces GPT-3 (175B)
    OpenAIsource โ†—

November 2019

  1. Released
    OpenAI releases the full GPT-2 (1.5B) weights
    OpenAIsource โ†—

    After a staged rollout that began in Feb 2019 over misuse concerns.

October 2018

  1. Released
    Google releases BERT
    Google DeepMindsource โ†—