AI model timeline

Releases, price changes, deprecations and retirements across every provider, as they happen.

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  1. AnnouncementsDeepSeek

    DeepSeek starts billing its Search and Fetch APIs per request

    From 00:00 Beijing time on 1 November 2026, standalone Search and Fetch calls cost $0.75 per 1,000 requests. Calls made through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex are currently free.

    Source
  2. Scheduled retirementsAnthropic

    Claude Sonnet 4.5 will be retired

    Replacement: Claude Sonnet 5.5

  3. AnnouncementsGoogle

    Google publishes higher Gemini API prices for December 2026 and January 2027

    Gemini 4 Argon prices double from 1 December 2026, and most other Gemini models double from 1 January 2027, on the standard paid tier. The changes are already shown as scheduled on each model page here.

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  4. Price changes AnnouncedGoogle

    Price change for Gemini 4 Argon

    • Input $2.00 → $4.00 ▲ 100%
    • Output $10.00 → $20.00 ▲ 100%
  5. Price changes AnnouncedGoogle

    Google changes prices on 12 models

    Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash…

October 2026

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra Pro

    Language models

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra

    Language models

  3. ReleasesMoonshot AI

    Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro

    Language models

  4. AnnouncementsAnthropic

    Claude API version 2026-10-21 removes temperature, top_p and top_k

    Requests that set these sampling parameters return an error on the new API version. Anthropic recommends steering behaviour through prompting instead. Earlier API versions already rejected non-default values on Claude 4.7 and later models.

    Source
  5. ReleasesMeta

    Meta released Muse Spark Open

    Language models

  6. ReleasesMeta

    Meta released Muse Wonder

    Language models

  7. ReleasesMeta

    Meta released Muse Wonder Full

    Language models

  8. ReleasesDeepSeek

    DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

    Language models

  9. ReleasesxAI

    xAI released Grok Voice 3.0

    Voice and realtime

  10. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Nano Banana 2.1

    Image generation

  11. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5

    Language models

  12. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4

    Language models

  13. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 4 Argon

    Language models

September 2026

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol Pro

    Language models

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol

    Language models

  3. ReleasesAlibaba Cloud (Qwen)

    Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.8 Max Prime

    Language models

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6 Luna Pro

    Language models

  5. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol Pro

    Language models

  6. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol

    Language models

  7. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6 Luna

    Language models

  8. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Live 1

    Voice and realtime

  9. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

    Image generation

  10. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst

    Image generation

  11. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra Pro

    Language models

  12. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra

    Language models

  13. ReleasesAlibaba Cloud (Qwen)

    Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.8-Max

    Language models

  14. ReleasesMeta

    Meta released Muse Spark 1.3

    Language models

  15. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash

    Language models

  16. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS

    Text to speech

  17. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS

    Text to speech

  18. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.8 Live

    Voice and realtime

  19. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1

    Language models

  20. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Lyria 3.5

    Music and sound

  21. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5.1

    Language models

  22. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5

    Language models

  23. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5

    Language models

  24. ReleasesxAI

    xAI released Grok 4.7

    Language models

  25. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released North Small Translate

    Specialised

  26. AnnouncementsAnthropic

    Claude Sonnet 5's $2 / $10 launch price becomes its standard price

    Introduced as launch pricing through 31 August 2026, the $2 input and $10 output per million tokens is now permanent. The increase to $3 / $15 scheduled for 1 September 2026 will not happen.

    Source

August 2026

  1. RetirementsMistral AI

    Mistral Medium 3 was retired

  2. RetirementsMistral AI

    Mistral Medium 3.1 was retired

  3. ReleasesDeepSeek

    DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

    Language models

  4. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Z.ai GLM 5.3 (on Mistral)

    Language models

  5. ReleasesAlibaba Cloud (Qwen)

    Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.8 27B

    Language models

  6. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash

    Language models

  7. ReleasesAlibaba Cloud (Qwen)

    Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

    Language models

  8. ReleasesMeta

    Meta released Muse Glimmer

    Language models

  9. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Cyber

    Language models

  10. ReleasesMeta

    Meta released Muse Spark 1.2

    Language models

  11. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini Omni Flash

    Language models

  12. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

    Speech to text

  13. ReleasesDeepSeek

    DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4 Pro

    Language models

  14. ReleasesxAI

    xAI released Grok 4.6

    Language models

July 2026

  1. ReleasesDeepSeek

    DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

    Language models

  2. RetirementsMistral AI

    Mistral Nemo 12B was retired

  3. RetirementsMistral AI

    Mistral Small 3.2 was retired

  4. RetirementsMistral AI

    Magistral Small 1.2 was retired

  5. RetirementsMistral AI

    Devstral 2 was retired

  6. RetirementsMistral AI

    Magistral Medium 1.2 was retired

  7. AnnouncementsOpenAI

    OpenAI renames Priority processing to the Fast tier

    OpenAI's higher-speed processing option is now called the Fast tier, alongside the Standard, Batch, Flex and Ultrafast tiers.

    Source
  8. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Transcribe

    Speech to text

  9. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Live-Transcribe

    Speech to text

  10. ReleasesMoonshot AI

    Moonshot AI released Kimi K3

    Language models

  11. ReleasesMeta

    Meta released Muse Spark 1.1

    Language models

  12. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol

    Language models

  13. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Luna

    Language models

  14. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Terra

    Language models

  15. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-2.1

    Voice and realtime

  16. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini Robotics ER 2

    Specialised

  17. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash

    Language models

  18. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

    Language models

  19. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 5

    Language models

  20. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Cohere Transcribe Arabic

    Speech to text

  21. ReleasesxAI

    xAI released Grok 4.5

    Language models

June 2026

  1. ReleasesMoonshot AI

    Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code

    Language models

  2. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released North Mini Code

    Language models

  3. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Fable 5

    Language models

  4. ReleasesAlibaba Cloud (Qwen)

    Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.7-Plus

    Language models

  5. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5

    Language models

  6. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite

    Image generation

  7. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5

    Language models

  8. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

    Voice and realtime

May 2026

  1. RetirementsMistral AI

    Devstral Medium 1.0 was retired

  2. RetirementsMistral AI

    Mistral Large 2.1 was retired

  3. RetirementsMistral AI

    Pixtral Large was retired

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-Translate

    Voice and realtime

  5. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-Whisper

    Speech to text

  6. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-2

    Voice and realtime

  7. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released Chat Latest

    Language models

  8. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

    Language models

  9. ReleasesxAI

    xAI released Grok Build 0.1

    Language models

  10. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Command A+

    Language models

  11. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8

    Language models

April 2026

  1. ReleasesxAI

    xAI released Grok 4.3

    Language models

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.5

    Language models

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Pro

    Language models

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Image-2

    Image generation

  5. ReleasesMoonshot AI

    Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6

    Language models

  6. RetirementsCohere

    Aya Expanse 8B was retired

  7. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7

    Language models

  8. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3.5

    Language models

  9. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview

    Language models

  10. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini Embedding 2

    Embeddings

March 2026

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.4 nano

    Language models

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Mini

    Language models

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.4

    Language models

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Pro

    Language models

  5. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Chat

    Language models

  6. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4

    Language models

  7. ReleasesxAI

    xAI released Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning

    Language models

  8. ReleasesxAI

    xAI released Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent

    Language models

  9. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Cohere Transcribe

    Speech to text

  10. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Lyria 3 Clip

    Music and sound

  11. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Lyria 3 Pro

    Music and sound

  12. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Moderation 2

    Moderation

  13. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Veo 3.1 Lite

    Video generation

  14. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Voxtral TTS

    Text to speech

  15. ReleasesxAI

    xAI released Grok 4.20 Reasoning

    Language models

February 2026

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex

    Language models

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-1.5

    Voice and realtime

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Audio-1.5

    Voice and realtime

  4. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Tiny Aya Global

    Language models

  5. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6

    Language models

  6. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro

    Language models

  7. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6

    Language models

  8. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Nano Banana 2

    Image generation

January 2026

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex

    Language models

December 2025

  1. RetirementsMistral AI

    Pixtral 12B was retired

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Image-1.5

    Image generation

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released chatgpt-image-latest

    Image generation

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.2 Chat

    Language models

  5. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.2

    Language models

  6. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.2 Pro

    Language models

  7. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

    Language models

  8. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Ministral 3 8B

    Language models

  9. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 3 Flash

    Language models

  10. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Ministral 3 14B

    Language models

  11. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Ministral 3 3B

    Language models

  12. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Large 3

    Language models

  13. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 3

    Documents and OCR

  14. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Devstral 2

    Language models

November 2025

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.1

    Language models

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.1 Chat

    Language models

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex

    Language models

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex Mini

    Language models

  5. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5

    Language models

  6. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Nano Banana Pro

    Image generation

October 2025

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Audio Mini

    Voice and realtime

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Image-1 Mini

    Image generation

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5 Pro

    Language models

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Realtime Mini

    Voice and realtime

  5. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5

    Language models

  6. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Veo 3.1

    Video generation

  7. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Veo 3.1 Fast

    Video generation

September 2025

  1. RetirementsMistral AI

    Mistral Saba was retired

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5-Codex

    Language models

  3. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Magistral Small 1.2

    Language models

  4. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5

    Language models

  5. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Magistral Medium 1.2

    Language models

August 2025

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Audio

    Voice and realtime

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Realtime

    Voice and realtime

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5

    Language models

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5 Mini

    Language models

  5. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5 nano

    Language models

  6. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-5 Chat

    Language models

  7. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3.1

    Language models

  8. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b

    Language models

  9. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released gpt-oss-20b

    Language models

  10. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Codestral

    Language models

  11. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1

    Language models

  12. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Command A Reasoning

    Language models

  13. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Command A Translate

    Specialised

  14. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Nano Banana

    Image generation

July 2025

  1. RetirementsAnthropic

    Claude 2 was retired

    Replacement: Claude Opus 4.8

  2. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

    Language models

  3. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Command A Vision

    Language models

  4. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Voxtral Small

    Language models

  5. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Devstral Medium 1.0

    Language models

June 2025

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released o3-deep-research

    Language models

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released o4-mini-deep-research

    Language models

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released o3-pro

    Language models

  4. Price changes AppliedOpenAI

    Price change for o3

    • Output $40.00 → $8.00 ▼ 80%
    • Input $10.00 → $2.00 ▼ 80%
  5. RetirementsMistral AI

    Codestral Mamba 7B was retired

  6. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro

    Language models

  7. ReleasesGoogle

    Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash

    Language models

  8. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.2

    Language models

May 2025

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released codex-mini-latest

    Language models

  2. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3

    Language models

  3. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Codestral Embed

    Embeddings

  4. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 4

    Language models

  5. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4

    Language models

April 2025

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released o4-mini

    Language models

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released o3

    Language models

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4.1

    Language models

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4.1 Mini

    Language models

  5. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4.1 nano

    Language models

  6. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-Image-1

    Image generation

  7. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Embed v4.0

    Embeddings

March 2025

  1. RetirementsMistral AI

    Mixtral 8x7B was retired

  2. RetirementsMistral AI

    Mixtral 8x22B was retired

  3. RetirementsMistral AI

    Mistral 7B was retired

  4. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini TTS

    Text to speech

  5. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini Transcribe

    Speech to text

  6. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released o1-pro

    Language models

  7. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released computer-use-preview

    Language models

  8. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini Search Preview

    Language models

  9. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4o Search Preview

    Language models

  10. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Aya Vision 32B

    Language models

  11. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Command A

    Language models

  12. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4o Transcribe

    Speech to text

February 2025

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4.5 Preview

    Language models

  2. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Saba

    Language models

  3. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 3.7

    Language models

January 2025

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released o3-mini

    Language models

December 2024

  1. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released o1

    Language models

  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini Audio

    Voice and realtime

  3. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini Realtime

    Voice and realtime

  4. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Rerank v3.5

    Reranking

  5. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Command R7B

    Language models

November 2024

  1. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Mistral Large 2.1

    Language models

  2. ReleasesMistral AI

    Mistral AI released Pixtral Large

    Language models

October 2024

  1. Price changes AppliedOpenAI

    Price change for GPT-4o

    • Input $5.00 → $2.50 ▼ 50%
    • Output $15.00 → $10.00 ▼ 33%
  2. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4o Realtime

    Voice and realtime

  3. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Aya Expanse 8B

    Language models

  4. ReleasesCohere

    Cohere released Aya Expanse 32B

    Language models

  5. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Haiku 3.5

    Language models

  6. ReleasesAnthropic

    Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 3.5 (new)

    Language models

  7. ReleasesOpenAI

    OpenAI released GPT-4o Audio

    Voice and realtime