AI model release timeline

What's in this timeline?

61 models from 8 labs, built in China, France and the US. The oldest release here is 16 April 2025 and the newest is 3 September 2026.

16 rows have no date. Some are models nobody has shipped. The rest are shipped models whose lab never published a launch date, and they sit at the bottom whichever way you sort.

Dates, context windows and prices come from each lab's own documentation, linked on the model's page. Where a lab hasn't published a number you get a dash. We don't fill gaps with estimates, because a made-up price is worse than no price.

The filters need JavaScript. The table doesn't: every row is in the page whether or not the script runs, so you can read the whole thing, print it, or scrape it.

Why keep a release tracker at all?

Because the labs don't. Each one publishes its own models on its own page in its own format, and none of them will tell you that a rival shipped something cheaper the same morning.

Put them all on one axis and things show up that no single lab's page will tell you. Which month everybody ships in. Which country a model came out of. How fast the price per million is actually falling, and which labs are quietly raising it again when an introductory rate runs out.

Want the raw feed instead? The tracker carries every post, release and outage as it lands. Model Watch has the same catalogue with a page per model.