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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.

LLM
26
Video
8
Multimodal
7
Image
6
Audio
3
Dates indicate when each model was added to our tracker, which closely matches public release timing for most entries.

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 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.