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Latest AI Models 2026 — 66 Released

The latest AI models of 2026, in one place — a complete, continuously updated catalog of every major AI model released and available in 2026, from 27 brands across LLMs, image, video, multimodal, and audio. Whether you're tracking new large language model releases, the major models of the year, or which reasoning / thinking-mode models just shipped, this is the full list. Click any model for full coverage; click any brand for its release timeline.

LLM
37
Video
10
Image
8
Multimodal
8
Audio
3
Dates indicate when each model was added to our tracker, which closely matches public release timing for most entries.

July 20263 models

xAI
by xAI

Grok 4.5 — xAI's frontier large language model, the successor to Grok 4, with stronger reasoning, coding and real-time knowledge via X integration.

Meta
by Meta

Watermelon — the codename for Meta's upcoming frontier AI model, reported to match OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks. Meta's bid to reclaim ground in the frontier LLM race under Alexandr Wang's superintelligence group.

Google
by Google

Nano Banana 2 Lite — Google's fastest, cheapest tier of its Nano Banana 2 (Gemini image) family, built for high-volume, low-latency image generation.

June 202613 models

Anthropic
by Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5 — Anthropic's balanced mid-tier model in the Claude 5 family, pairing strong reasoning and coding with fast, cost-efficient responses.

P
by PixVerse

PixVerse V6 — PixVerse's 2026 flagship video generation model, advancing toward real-time, cinematic control across creative and agentic workflows.

P
by PixVerse

PixVerse R1 — PixVerse's real-time video 'world model' with live input, subject priority, shared worlds and personalized avatars.

M
by Meituan

Meituan's 1.6-trillion-parameter open-source agentic coding model with a 1M-token context window (June 2026). The first trillion-parameter model claimed to be fully pre-trained AND served on domestic Chinese AI chips.

Mistral
Mistral OCR 4Multimodal
by Mistral

Mistral AI's document-intelligence (OCR) model (June 2026). Structure-aware extraction with bounding boxes, block classification and confidence scores across 170 languages; self-hostable in a single container. Tops OlmOCRBench; feeds RAG, agentic and enterprise-search pipelines.

OpenAI
by OpenAI

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family (previewed 2026) — tiered Sol, Terra and Luna models with new reasoning modes; reportedly beats Anthropic's Mythos 5. Initial rollout was limited at US government request.

R
by Recraft

Recraft's most advanced text-to-image model (V4.1) — design-grade image generation with strong visual taste, brand styles, and precise control.

S
by Sakana AI

Sakana AI model that coordinates and orchestrates multiple models, matching frontier models on some benchmarks.

Zhipu AI
GLMLLM
by Zhipu AI

The GLM (General Language Model) family from Zhipu AI / Z.ai — open-weight Chinese LLMs (GLM-4.5/4.6/5/5.1/5.2 plus GLM-OCR, Air, Flash and Turbo variants) known for strong coding and long-context performance under permissive (MIT) licenses.

NVIDIA
by NVIDIA

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra — the largest, highest-capability model in the Nemotron 3 open model family, tuned for advanced reasoning, agentic workflows and enterprise AI.

Anthropic
by Anthropic

Anthropic's Mythos-class multimodal Claude model (text, vision, code) made safe for general use — strong at software engineering, knowledge work, long-context reasoning, scientific research and protein design, with safeguards that fall back to Claude Opus 4.8 for sensitive domains. Available via the Claude API and claude.ai. Priced at $10 / $50 per million input / output tokens.

Anthropic
by Anthropic

The same underlying multimodal Claude model as Fable 5, but with safeguards lifted in some domains (e.g. cybersecurity, biology), offered to vetted users through Anthropic's Project Glasswing trusted-access program. Text, vision and code. Priced at $10 / $50 per million input / output tokens.

Google
by Google

Google's 12-billion-parameter open model in the Gemma 4 family — a compact, efficient multimodal LLM designed to run on a single GPU.

May 202614 models

Anthropic
by Anthropic

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.8, launched alongside Opus 4.8 — brings Opus-class quality into the mid tier with the new Dynamic Workflows tool and improved vision workflows.

Anthropic
by Anthropic

Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.8 — the successor to Opus 4.7 with further improvements in advanced reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.

Alibaba Cloud
by Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud's latest Qwen 3-series flagship LLM, the successor to Qwen 3.6 with improved reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.

NVIDIA
CosmosMultimodal
by NVIDIA

NVIDIA Cosmos — world foundation models that generate physics-aware synthetic data and reasoning for physical AI and robotics.

Google DeepMind
by Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind's mathematical-reasoning model that formally proves theorems; the AlphaProof Nexus version tackles Erdős problems.

NVIDIA
GR00TMultimodal
by NVIDIA

NVIDIA's foundation model for humanoid robots (Isaac GR00T), enabling generalist embodied skills.

P
π0Multimodal
by Physical Intelligence

Physical Intelligence's Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for general robot control (π0, π0-FAST, π0.6).

OpenAI
by OpenAI

OpenAI's image generation model, successor to DALL·E, integrated into ChatGPT and the API.

ByteDance
LanceMultimodal
by ByteDance

ByteDance's unified model for image and video understanding, generation and editing.

OpenAI
by OpenAI

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 — the default ChatGPT model (Instant), with Pro and Thinking variants for paid plans. Lower hallucination in law, medicine and finance, and stronger STEM reasoning. A GPT-5.5-Cyber variant targets cybersecurity.

Google
by Google

Google's multimodal model family for video generation and editing, announced at Google I/O 2026. Gemini Omni Flash creates and edits high-quality video from text, image, audio and video inputs with physics-aware generation, conversational editing, digital avatars and SynthID watermarking.

April 20265 models

Moonshot AI
by Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI's flagship 1T-parameter open-weight LLM featuring 262K context window, long-horizon coding with up to 300 sub-agent swarms and 4,000 coordinated steps. Outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro (58.6). Supports multimodal input including vision.

Anthropic
by Anthropic

Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.

Meta
by Meta

Meta open-source AI video generation model for creating short video clips from text and image prompts.

Google
Gemma 4Multimodal
by Google

Google DeepMind's most capable open model family. Available in 4 sizes (E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, 31B Dense) with advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, vision, audio, 256K context, 140+ languages. Apache 2.0 license. Runs on devices from phones to H100 GPUs.

Google
by Google

Most cost-effective video generation model is now available to developers in the Gemini API.

March 202630 models

Google DeepMind
Lyria 3Audio
by Google DeepMind

Lyria 3 helps you express, explore, and experiment with high-fidelity music, using prompts to create tracks with natural flow from note to note.

OpenAI
by OpenAI

Most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.

Anthropic
by Anthropic

Hybrid reasoning model with superior intelligence for agents, featuring a 1M context window

Anthropic
by Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.6 is state-of-the-art across a wide range of coding and agentic capabilities.

xAI
GrokLLM
by xAI

Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X

Anthropic
by Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5 is our fastest, most cost-efficient model, matching Sonnet 4’s performance on coding, computer use, and agent tasks.

January 20261 model

ByteDance
by ByteDance

Seedance 2.0 adopts a unified multimodal audio-video joint generation architecture that supports text, image, audio, and video inputs, leading to the most comprehensive multimodal content reference and editing capabilities in the industry.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many AI models were released in 2026?

We are currently tracking 66 major AI models added in 2026, from 27 different brands. This catalog updates continuously as new models launch and we add them to our tracker.

Which company released the most AI models in 2026?

Anthropic leads with 10 models. The top contributors by model count are: Anthropic (10), Google (8), OpenAI (8), Google DeepMind (6), NVIDIA (4).

What are the current AI models available in 2026?

The current, available AI models of 2026 span 37 LLM, 10 Video, 8 Image, 8 Multimodal, 3 Audio — 66 models in total. This page lists every one, newest first, with the company behind it.

Which 2026 AI models have a thinking or reasoning mode?

Most of the new 2026 large language models — including the latest flagship releases from the leading labs — ship a dedicated thinking / reasoning mode for harder problems. Use the LLM filter above to see the reasoning-capable models released this year.

Are upcoming or newly announced 2026 AI models included?

Yes — we add each model as soon as it is announced or launched and appears in news coverage, so just-announced and upcoming 2026 models show up here quickly. Dates reflect when the model entered our tracker, which closely matches public release timing.

How is this catalog maintained?

We add each major AI model as it appears in news coverage from our 30+ sources (research labs, tech publications, and AI communities). Dates reflect when the model entered our tracker, which closely corresponds to public launch dates for most entries. Click any model to see full news coverage and related entities.