{
  "name": "AI Model Releases Timeline",
  "description": "Frontier and open model releases as they happen, with what actually changed. Compiled from ANOTHER News daily coverage.",
  "url": "https://anothernews.io/trackers/model-releases/",
  "publisher": "ANOTHER News",
  "publisherUrl": "https://anothernews.io/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "licenseName": "CC BY 4.0",
  "terms": "https://anothernews.io/data/",
  "citation": "ANOTHER News, AI Model Releases Timeline, https://anothernews.io/trackers/model-releases/",
  "updated": "2026-09-04",
  "rowCount": 35,
  "rows": [
    {
      "date": "2026-07-08",
      "event": "GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna go public."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-09",
      "event": "GLM-5.2 becomes the fastest growing AI model of 2026."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-17",
      "event": "Kimi K3 takes the number one spot on the arena leaderboard from Claude and GPT."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-17",
      "event": "Google's Gemini 3.5 is reported delayed while headlines claim the opposite."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "event": "DeepSeek releases V4-Flash-0731, pushing Terminal Bench 2.1 from 61.8 to 82.7 at unchanged prices.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/llamacpp-deepseek-v4-flash/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-03",
      "event": "Alibaba announces Qwen3.8-Max, 2.4 trillion parameters, with open weights promised within a week.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/qwen38-max-open-weights/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-06",
      "event": "Meta launches Muse Code, with a cheap tier that trains on user prompts and code.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/meta-muse-code/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-10",
      "event": "Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weights model that runs on a single consumer GPU.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/meta-muse-glimmer/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-10",
      "event": "DeepMind opens WeatherNext, which beats existing cyclone forecasts by a full day.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/weathernext-open-source/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-11",
      "event": "OpenAI ships GPT-5.6-Cyber, a security-specialized model that answers 95 percent of the questions its general models refuse.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/gpt56-cyber-daybreak/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-13",
      "event": "DeepMind releases SL2T, a sign language translation model shipping in the Pixel 11 keyboard.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/deepmind-sl2t-sign-language/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-14",
      "event": "DeepSeek ships V4 Pro and raises API prices up to 12x with peak-hour billing.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/deepseek-price-hike-12x/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-14",
      "event": "OpenAI previews Ultrafast, running GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 tokens per second.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/openai-ultrafast-750tps/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-16",
      "event": "Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6, while Gemini 3.5 Pro stays delayed.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/gemini-37-flash/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-16",
      "event": "Nvidia's MotionBricks animates game characters and a humanoid robot from one model trained on 350,000 clips.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/nvidia-motionbricks/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-18",
      "event": "Anthropic's risk report discloses an unreleased Model 2 more capable than Mythos 5.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/anthropic-model-2-unreleased/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-19",
      "event": "OpenAI pauses frontier RL training for two weeks and keeps its largest run on hold.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/openai-stopped-training-run/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-20",
      "event": "Claude, working with mathematicians, finds a rank 30 elliptic curve, the first improvement on the 2024 record; a second improvement follows within the week.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/claude-math-record/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-22",
      "event": "A model listed only as Ox Alpha appears on OpenRouter with no lab attached, a 1,048,576-token context window and near-unlimited free usage.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/ox-alpha-mystery-model/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-23",
      "event": "Z.ai delays GLM-5.3 open weights by two weeks after the model found 1,097 medium-to-high severity bugs across 269 open-source projects."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-23",
      "event": "Z.ai delays GLM-5.3 open weights by two weeks after the model finds 2,436 flaws across 269 open-source projects, 1,097 of them medium to high severity.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/zai-glm53-bugs-weights/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-24",
      "event": "OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API and credit pricing by over 20 percent for three months.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/openai-sol-price-cut/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "event": "Alibaba open-weights Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: 176 billion parameters (125B model plus a 51B N-gram lookup) with only about 6B active per token.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/qwen38-flash-next-176b/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "event": "Anthropic ships a browser inside Claude Cowork: the desktop app opens a side panel and navigates, clicks and fills forms for Pro, Max and Team plans on macOS and Windows.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/claude-cowork-browser/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "event": "Anthropic opens the research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, letting agents discover and operate lab equipment; QuEra laser stabilization went from 58% to 99.3%.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/anthropic-mhs/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "event": "Instinct, an AI assistant reached by text or phone call that acts through connected apps, is valued at $2.5 billion while still not publicly available.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/instinct-assistant-25b/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-29",
      "event": "fal ships MiniMax H3 Max, rendering 5-second audio-video clips in under 3 seconds, faster than playback.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/infinite-slop-livestream/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "event": "OpenAI retires the original DALL-E GPT from ChatGPT; ChatGPT Images takes over.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/dalle-retires-today/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-30",
      "event": "GPT-5.6 breaks the 2018 record on large gaps between primes set by Ford, Green, Konyagin, Maynard and Tao, per Oxford number theorist Jared Lichtman.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/gpt56-prime-gap-record/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-01",
      "event": "Dyson launches CameraJet, its first toothbrush: a $499 device with a 100,000-pixel camera at 28fps and AI that fires mouth rinse at gaps between teeth.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/dyson-camerajet-toothbrush/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-01",
      "event": "Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: 55.8% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, cache reads 75% cheaper; Fable models run on usage credits for Pro subscribers.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/fable-51-not-in-pro/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-01",
      "event": "OpenAI designates Astra the first model at its Critical cybersecurity threshold and says it will release it with limited cyber access via Daybreak Blue.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/openai-astra-critical/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "event": "Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, third Flash in six weeks, ahead of Opus 5 on Google's tables."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "event": "Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3, reporting 75.4% on DeepSWE v1.1."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "event": "OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, scoring 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 and 100% on ExploitBench; rollout to all paid ChatGPT tiers, API, Azure and AWS Bedrock within days."
    }
  ]
}