AI Models / Release timeline
AI model release timeline
When every major AI model shipped — text/reasoning and image/video — newest first. We keep this current as new models land, alongside live pricing and side-by-side benchmarks.
2026
- Sep 17, 2026Occasion SongNew
Image / video·Image / video
- Sep 8, 2026GPT Image 2.5New
Image / video·Image / video
- Sep 2026Lyria 3.5New
Image / video·Image / video
- August 2026GLM 5.3
Z.ai·Text / reasoning
- Jul 22, 2026Qwen Image 3
Image / video·Image / video
- Jul 2, 2026Seedance 2 (ByteDance)
Image / video·Image / video
- July 2026Kimi K3
Moonshot AI·Text / reasoning
- June 2026Claude Fable 5
Anthropic·Text / reasoning
- June 2026Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic·Text / reasoning
- June 2026GPT-5.5
OpenAI·Text / reasoning
- June 2026GPT-5.5 Pro
OpenAI·Text / reasoning
- 2026Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic·Text / reasoning
- 2026Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic·Text / reasoning
- 2026Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic·Text / reasoning
- 2026Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google DeepMind·Text / reasoning
- 2026GLM 5.2
Z.ai·Text / reasoning
2025
2024
2023
2022
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