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.
50 AI Models Released in 2026
A chronological catalog of every major AI model we've tracked in 2026 — from 22 brands across LLMs, image, video, multimodal, and audio. Click any model for full coverage; click any brand for its full release timeline.
May 202614 models
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's latest Qwen 3-series flagship LLM, the successor to Qwen 3.6 with improved reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.
Google DeepMind's mathematical-reasoning model that formally proves theorems; the AlphaProof Nexus version tackles Erdős problems.
Google DeepMind's embodied-reasoning Gemini model for real-world robotics tasks.
Physical Intelligence's Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for general robot control (π0, π0-FAST, π0.6).
Google's fast, cost-efficient Gemini model tier, announced at Google I/O 2026.
OpenAI's image generation model, successor to DALL·E, integrated into ChatGPT and the API.
ByteDance's unified model for image and video understanding, generation and editing.
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'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.
Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.
Meta open-source AI video generation model for creating short video clips from text and image prompts.
Most cost-effective video generation model is now available to developers in the Gemini API.
March 202630 models
Lyria 3 helps you express, explore, and experiment with high-fidelity music, using prompts to create tracks with natural flow from note to note.
Hybrid reasoning model with superior intelligence for agents, featuring a 1M context window
Claude Opus 4.6 is state-of-the-art across a wide range of coding and agentic capabilities.
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
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 50 major AI models added in 2026, from 22 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 7 models. The top contributors by model count are: Anthropic (7), OpenAI (7), Google DeepMind (6), Google (6), NVIDIA (3).
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.


