Month-by-month
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A calendar-style release history for model launches and lifecycle changes, grouped by month so the release cadence is easier to scan.
A month-by-month history of the field. Each section sums up how many events, labs, and outright releases landed that month, so the pace and the quiet stretches are both visible at a glance.
This is a summarized calendar view of the same source-backed lifecycle events shown in the full changelog.
30 events · 15 labs · 20 releases
July 2026
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceMoonshot AI
- sourceReleasedAnthropic releases Claude Opus 5Anthropic
- sourceAnt Group (inclusionAI)
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceReleasedPoolside releases Laguna S 2.1Poolside
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceReleasedGoogle launches Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle DeepMind
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceReleasedMoonshot AI releases Kimi K3Moonshot AI
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceThinking Machines Lab
- sourceKwaipilot (Kuaishou)
- sourceKwaipilot (Kuaishou)
- sourceOpenAI
- sourceOpenAI
- sourceMeta AI
- sourceOpenAI
- sourceOpenAI
- sourcexAI
- sourceMistral AI
- sourceNVIDIA
- sourceTencent Hunyuan
- sourceReleasedPoolside releases Laguna XS 2.1Poolside
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceAnthropic
34 events · 16 labs · 21 releases
June 2026
- sourceMeituan (LongCat)
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceBase44
- sourceAnthropic
- sourcePreviewOpenAI previews GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI
- sourceOpenAI
- sourcePreviewOpenAI previews GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
- sourceAnthropic
- source
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceByteDance Seed
- sourceReleasedByteDance releases Seed 2.1 ProByteDance Seed
- sourceReleasedSakana AI releases FuguSakana AI
- sourceReleasedSakana AI releases Fugu UltraSakana AI
- sourceZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
- sourceReleasedMoonshot releases Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI
- sourceZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
- sourceReleasedMiniMax releases MiniMax-M3MiniMax
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceCohere
- sourceOpenAI
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceUnisound
- sourceNVIDIA
- source
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceMicrosoft
- sourceReleasedNex AGI open-sources Nex-N2-ProNex AGI
- sourceMicrosoft
- sourceAlibaba (Qwen)
14 events · 9 labs · 10 releases
May 2026
- sourceReleasedStepFun releases Step-3.7-FlashStepFun
- sourceReleasedLiquid AI releases LFM2.5-8B-A1BLiquid AI
- sourceReleasedClaude Opus 4.8 releasedAnthropic
- sourceReleasedMiniMax releases MiniMax-M2.7MiniMax
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen3.6-27BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceRetiredClaude 3.7 Sonnet retiredAnthropic
- sourceReleasedBaidu releases ERNIE 5.1Baidu
- sourceReleasedOpenAI releases GPT-5.5OpenAI
- sourceOpenAI
- sourceReleasedGrok 4.3 generally availablexAI
14 events · 8 labs · 11 releases
April 2026
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceTencent Hunyuan
- sourceReleasedXiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi (MiMo)
- sourceXiaomi (MiMo)
- sourceTencent Hunyuan
- sourceOpenAI
- sourceMeta AI
- sourceMeta AI
- sourceZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceOpenAI
- sourceReleasedGoogle DeepMind releases Gemma 4Google DeepMind
- sourceZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
12 events · 8 labs · 11 releases
March 2026
6 events · 5 labs · 6 releases
February 2026
2 events · 2 labs · 2 releases
January 2026
- sourceReleasedMoonshot releases Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI
- sourceZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
8 events · 6 labs · 8 releases
December 2025
- sourceReleasedOpenAI releases GPT-5.2-CodexOpenAI
- sourceAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
- sourceNVIDIA
- sourceReleasedOpenAI releases GPT-5.2OpenAI
- sourceZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
- sourceMistral AI
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceDeepSeek
2 events · 2 labs · 2 releases
November 2025
- sourceReleasedLiquid AI releases LFM2 1.2BLiquid AI
- sourceMoonshot AI
2 events · 2 labs · 2 releases
October 2025
6 events · 5 labs · 5 releases
September 2025
9 events · 7 labs · 7 releases
August 2025
9 events · 8 labs · 9 releases
July 2025
- sourceTechnology Innovation Institute
- sourceZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
- sourceReleasedZ.ai releases GLM-4.5 under MITZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceLG AI Research
- sourceMoonshot AI
- sourceReleasedxAI releases Grok 4xAI
- sourceReleasedHugging Face releases SmolLM3 3BHugging Face
8 events · 5 labs · 8 releases
June 2025
- sourceBaidu
- sourceBaidu
- sourceMoonshot AI
- sourceReleasedGoogle releases Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle DeepMind
- sourceReleasedMoonshot releases Kimi-Dev-72BMoonshot AI
- sourceMiniMax
- sourceReleasedMistral releases Magistral SmallMistral AI
- sourceMistral AI
7 events · 6 labs · 6 releases
May 2025
- source
- sourceByteDance Seed
- sourceReleasedAnthropic releases Claude Opus 4Anthropic
- sourceMistral AI
- sourceReleasedSarvam AI releases Sarvam-MSarvam AI
- sourceReleasedGoogle releases Gemma 3n E4BGoogle DeepMind
- sourceMistral AI
11 events · 7 labs · 10 releases
April 2025
- sourceMicrosoft
- sourceReleasedIBM releases Granite 3.3 8BIBM
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen3-235B-A22BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceMoonshot AI
- sourceMoonshot AI
- sourceReleasedOpenAI releases OpenAI o3OpenAI
- sourceReleasedOpenAI releases GPT-4.1OpenAI
- sourceMeta AI
- sourceReleasedMeta releases Llama 4 ScoutMeta AI
- sourceReleasedMeta releases Llama 4 MaverickMeta AI
- sourceNVIDIA
7 events · 7 labs · 7 releases
March 2025
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen2.5-Omni-7BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- source
- sourceMistral AI
- sourceReleasedBaidu releases ERNIE X1Baidu
- sourceReleasedCohere releases Command ACohere
- sourceAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
5 events · 5 labs · 5 releases
February 2025
- sourceReleasedIBM releases Granite 3.2 8BIBM
- sourceMoonshot AI
- sourceNous Research
- sourceReleasedxAI releases Grok 3xAI
- sourceCognitive Computations
7 events · 6 labs · 7 releases
January 2025
- sourceMistral AI
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen2.5-MaxAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen2.5-VL-72BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceByteDance Seed
- sourceReleasedMoonshot releases Kimi k1.5Moonshot AI
- sourceReleasedDeepSeek-R1 released under MITDeepSeek
- sourceReleasedMiniMax releases MiniMax-01MiniMax
12 events · 11 labs · 12 releases
December 2024
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceReleasedStepFun releases Step-2StepFun
- sourceIBM
- sourceTechnology Innovation Institute
- sourceReleasedCohere releases Command R7BCohere
- sourceMicrosoft
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceLG AI Research
- sourceReleasedMeta releases Llama 3.3 70BMeta AI
- sourceReleasedOpenAI releases OpenAI o1OpenAI
- sourceReleasedAmazon releases Amazon Nova LiteAmazon
- sourceAmazon
6 events · 5 labs · 6 releases
November 2024
- sourceReleasedQwen releases QwQ-32B-PreviewAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceReleasedAi2 releases Tulu 3 405BAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen2.5-Coder-32BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceHugging Face
- sourceTencent Hunyuan
6 events · 6 labs · 6 releases
October 2024
- sourceReleasedSarvam AI releases Sarvam-1Sarvam AI
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceReleasedIBM releases Granite 3.0 8BIBM
- sourceReleasedMistral releases Ministral 8BMistral AI
- source
- sourceNVIDIA
9 events · 8 labs · 9 releases
September 2024
- sourceMeta AI
- sourceReleasedAi2 releases Molmo 72BAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen2.5-72BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceReleasedMistral releases Pixtral 12BMistral AI
- sourceOpenAI
- sourceTencent Hunyuan
- sourceReleasedDeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V2.5DeepSeek
- sourceReleased01.AI releases Yi-Coder-9B01.AI
- sourceReleasedAi2 releases OLMoE 1B-7BAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
6 events · 6 labs · 6 releases
August 2024
- sourceAI21 Labs
- sourceReleasedMicrosoft releases Phi-3.5 MoEMicrosoft
- sourceNous Research
- sourceReleasedxAI releases Grok-2xAI
- sourceLG AI Research
- sourceReleasedOpenBMB releases MiniCPM-V 2.6OpenBMB
2 events · 2 labs · 2 releases
July 2024
- sourceReleasedMeta releases Llama 3.1 405BMeta AI
- sourceReleasedMistral releases Mistral NeMoMistral AI
6 events · 6 labs · 6 releases
June 2024
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceAnthropic
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceReleasedNVIDIA releases Nemotron-4 340BNVIDIA
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen2-72BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceReleasedZhipu AI releases GLM-4-9BZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
7 events · 7 labs · 7 releases
May 2024
- sourceReleasedMistral releases Codestral 22BMistral AI
- sourceReleasedCohere releases Aya 23 35BCohere
- sourceByteDance Seed
- sourceReleasedTII releases Falcon 2 11BTechnology Innovation Institute
- sourceReleased01.AI releases Yi-1.5-34B01.AI
- sourceReleasedDeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V2DeepSeek
- sourceReleasedIBM releases Granite Code 34BIBM
10 events · 9 labs · 10 releases
April 2024
- sourceAmazon
- sourceSnowflake AI Research
- sourceReleasedMicrosoft releases Phi-3 MiniMicrosoft
- sourceReleasedMeta releases Llama 3 70BMeta AI
- sourceReleasedMiniMax releases abab6.5MiniMax
- sourceReleasedMistral releases Mixtral 8x22BMistral AI
- sourceMicrosoft
- sourceReleasedStepFun releases Step-1VStepFun
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceReleasedCohere releases Command R+Cohere
7 events · 7 labs · 7 releases
March 2024
- sourceReleasedxAI releases Grok-1.5xAI
- sourceReleasedAI21 releases JambaAI21 Labs
- sourceDatabricks / MosaicML
- sourceReleasedStepFun releases Step-1StepFun
- sourceReleasedMoonshot releases Kimi 1MMoonshot AI
- sourceReleasedCohere releases Command RCohere
- sourceReleasedAnthropic releases Claude 3 OpusAnthropic
7 events · 5 labs · 7 releases
February 2024
- sourceReleasedBigCode releases StarCoder2 15BBigCode
- sourceReleasedMistral releases Mistral LargeMistral AI
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceGoogle DeepMind
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen1.5-110BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen1.5-72B-ChatAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceReleasedAi2 releases OLMo 7BAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
6 events · 6 labs · 6 releases
January 2024
- sourceStability AI
- sourceReleasedZhipu AI releases GLM-4Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
- sourceNous Research
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceReleasedOpenChat releases OpenChat 3.5OpenChat
- sourceTinyLlama
4 events · 4 labs · 4 releases
December 2023
- sourceReleasedMicrosoft releases Phi-2Microsoft
- sourceReleasedSarvam AI releases OpenHathi-7BSarvam AI
- sourceMistral AI
- sourceReleasedGoogle announces Gemini 1.0Google DeepMind
8 events · 6 labs · 8 releases
November 2023
- sourceReleasedAlibaba open-sources Qwen-72BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceDeepSeek
- sourceReleased01.AI releases Yi-34B-Chat01.AI
- sourceReleasedAnthropic releases Claude 2.1Anthropic
- sourceReleasedOpenAI releases GPT-4 TurboOpenAI
- sourceReleased01.AI releases Yi-34B01.AI
- sourceReleasedxAI releases Grok-1xAI
- sourceDeepSeek
2 events · 2 labs · 2 releases
October 2023
- sourceReleasedBaidu releases ERNIE 4.0Baidu
- sourceReleasedMoonshot releases Kimi ChatMoonshot AI
7 events · 7 labs · 7 releases
September 2023
- sourceReleasedLLaVA releases LLaVA 1.5 13BLLaVA
- sourceAmazon
- sourceReleasedMistral AI releases Mistral 7BMistral AI
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen-14BAlibaba (Qwen)
- sourceReleasedTencent Hunyuan releases HunyuanTencent Hunyuan
- sourceReleasedIBM releases Granite 13BIBM
- sourceReleasedTII releases Falcon 180BTechnology Innovation Institute
2 events · 2 labs · 2 releases
August 2023
- sourceReleasedMeta releases Code Llama 34BMeta AI
- sourceReleasedQwen releases Qwen-7BAlibaba (Qwen)
4 events · 4 labs · 4 releases
July 2023
2 events · 2 labs · 2 releases
June 2023
- sourceReleasedZhipu AI releases ChatGLM2-6BZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
- sourceReleasedMicrosoft releases Phi-1Microsoft
3 events · 3 labs · 3 releases
May 2023
- sourceReleasedTII releases Falcon 40BTechnology Innovation Institute
- sourceReleasedGoogle DeepMind releases PaLM 2Google DeepMind
- sourceReleasedDatabricks releases MPT-7BDatabricks / MosaicML
7 events · 6 labs · 7 releases
March 2023
- sourceReleasedLMSYS releases Vicuna 13BLMSYS / SkyLab
- sourceReleasedBaidu releases ERNIE BotBaidu
- sourceReleasedAnthropic releases Claude 1Anthropic
- sourceReleasedZhipu AI releases ChatGLM-6BZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
- sourceReleasedOpenAI releases GPT-4OpenAI
- sourceReleasedAI21 releases Jurassic-2 UltraAI21 Labs
- sourceReleasedOpenAI releases GPT-3.5 TurboOpenAI
1 events · 1 labs · 1 releases
February 2023
- sourceMeta AI
3 events · 2 labs · 1 releases
November 2022
1 events · 1 labs · 1 releases
July 2022
- sourceBigScience
1 events · 1 labs · 1 releases
April 2022
- sourceReleasedGoogle announces PaLM (540B)Google DeepMind
2 events · 2 labs · 2 releases
December 2021
- sourceLG AI Research
- sourceReleasedBaidu releases ERNIE 3.0 TitanBaidu
1 events · 1 labs · 1 releases
August 2021
- sourceReleasedAI21 releases Jurassic-1 JumboAI21 Labs
1 events · 1 labs · 1 releases
June 2020
- sourceReleasedOpenAI introduces GPT-3 (175B)OpenAI
1 events · 1 labs · 1 releases
November 2019
- sourceOpenAI
1 events · 1 labs · 1 releases
October 2018
- sourceReleasedGoogle releases BERTGoogle DeepMind
Frequently asked questions
What does the release calendar cover?
Every source-backed lifecycle event in the catalog — launches, previews, updates, deprecations, retirements, and withdrawals — grouped by the month it happened, newest first.
Why do some months have far more releases than others?
Release cadence is genuinely bursty: labs cluster launches around conferences and competitive responses. The per-month counts (events, labs, releases) make those waves easy to spot.
Where do the dates come from?
From the official announcement or model-card date for each event, not the time it was added to this site. Each row links back to its source.
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