AI Release Timeline

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.