AI Release Timeline

Gemini 3.6 Flash launched by Google. Google's speed-optimized Gemini 3.6 Flash with frontier-level intelligence at lower cost than prior Flash tiers.

Kimi K3 launched by Moonshot AI. Moonshot flagship open-frontier model with ~2.8T parameters, native vision, and a 1M-token context window.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 launched by Anthropic. Anthropic's balanced Sonnet 4.5 for production coding and agent workflows.

GPT-5 launched by OpenAI. OpenAI flagship GPT-5 generation for general and agentic workloads.

GPT-5 Mini launched by OpenAI. Cost-efficient GPT-5 family model for high-volume production.

DeepSeek V4 launched by DeepSeek. Next-gen DeepSeek general model emphasizing coding and cost efficiency.

Claude Opus 4.1 launched by Anthropic. Anthropic's latest Opus-class model for deep reasoning, coding, and long-form analysis.

Gemini 3 Pro launched by Google. Google Gemini 3 Pro frontier tier for complex multimodal reasoning and long-context workloads.

Grok 4 launched by xAI. xAI Grok 4 with real-time retrieval emphasis and strong general capability.

Kimi K2 launched by Moonshot AI. Prior Moonshot coding-strong MoE model, strong agent/tool use at competitive pricing.

Claude 4 Sonnet launched by Anthropic. Latest Sonnet with improved reasoning and tool use.

Claude 4 Opus launched by Anthropic. Anthropic flagship for the most demanding tasks.

Claude 4 Haiku launched by Anthropic. Next-gen Haiku with Claude 4 intelligence at low cost.

Gemini 2.5 Flash launched by Google. Flash model with thinking capabilities and top multimodal scores.

OpenAI o4 Mini launched by OpenAI. Latest compact reasoning model with vision support.

OpenAI o3 launched by OpenAI. Full o3 reasoning model with vision and tool use.

GPT-4.1 launched by OpenAI. Next-gen GPT with 1M context and improved instruction following.

GPT-4.1 Mini launched by OpenAI. Mini variant of GPT-4.1 for scalable deployments.

GPT-4.1 Nano launched by OpenAI. Ultra-low-cost GPT-4.1 tier for classification and extraction.

Gemini 2.5 Pro launched by Google. Google flagship with 1M context and deep reasoning.

DeepSeek V3 0324 launched by DeepSeek. Updated V3 with improved instruction following and 128K context.

Command A launched by Cohere. Cohere flagship agentic model for tool use and search.

Llama 4 Maverick launched by Meta. Open multimodal Llama with 1M context window.

Llama 4 Scout launched by Meta. Llama 4 with industry-leading 10M context for documents.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet launched by Anthropic. Sonnet with extended thinking for harder problems.

Grok 3 launched by xAI. xAI flagship with strong reasoning and tool use.

Grok 3 Mini launched by xAI. Efficient Grok 3 variant for high-volume use.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite launched by Google. Ultra-cheap Gemini for simple tasks at scale.

OpenAI o3 Mini launched by OpenAI. Efficient reasoning model in the o3 family.

Mistral Small launched by Mistral. Compact Mistral for cost-sensitive applications.

DeepSeek R1 launched by DeepSeek. Open reasoning model with o1-class performance at fraction of cost.

Codestral launched by Mistral. Code-specialized Mistral model for IDE and agent use.

DeepSeek V3 launched by DeepSeek. Highly efficient MoE model rivaling frontier closed models.

Gemini 2.0 Flash launched by Google. Fast multimodal Gemini with native audio and vision.

Llama 3.3 70B launched by Meta. Open-weight 70B model competitive with larger closed models.

OpenAI o1 launched by OpenAI. Reasoning model using internal chain-of-thought.

Mistral Large launched by Mistral. Mistral flagship for enterprise European deployments.

Pixtral Large launched by Mistral. Mistral multimodal model with strong vision understanding.

Claude 3.5 Haiku launched by Anthropic. Fast and affordable Claude for high-throughput workloads.

Ministral 8B launched by Mistral. Tiny on-device capable Mistral for edge deployments.

Grok 2 launched by xAI. xAI general model with real-time X data integration.

Llama 3.1 405B launched by Meta. Largest open-weight Llama for maximum capability.

GPT-4o Mini launched by OpenAI. Cost-efficient small model for high-volume applications.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet launched by Anthropic. Balanced Claude model excelling at coding and analysis.

DeepSeek Coder V2 launched by DeepSeek. Code-specialized DeepSeek for programming tasks.

GPT-4o launched by OpenAI. Flagship multimodal model balancing speed, intelligence, and cost.

Command R+ launched by Cohere. Cohere model optimized for RAG and enterprise search.

Command R launched by Cohere. Affordable Cohere model for retrieval-augmented workflows.

Claude 3 Opus launched by Anthropic. Previous-gen Opus still strong for writing-heavy workloads.

Gemini 1.5 Pro launched by Google. Proven Gemini with industry-leading 2M context window.