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Models Released in 2026

Browse every generative AI model released in 2026 — large language models, image generators, code models and more — ordered by release date. Compare their specs and rankings on our benchmarks page, or put any two side by side with compare. See also models from 2025.

194 models

Doubao Seed 2.1

🇨🇳 ByteDance

Jun 2026
Language Proprietary

Mistral OCR 4

🇫🇷 Mistral AI

Jun 2026
Multimodal Proprietary

Baichuan-M4

🇨🇳 Baichuan

Jun 2026
Language Proprietary

GPT-5.5-Cyber

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Jun 2026
Language Proprietary

Krea 2 Open-Source

Krea

Jun 2026 12B
Image Generation Open Weights

PLaMo 3.0 Prime

🇯🇵 Preferred Networks

Jun 2026 256K ctx
Language Proprietary

Sakana Fugu

🇯🇵 Sakana AI

Jun 2026
Language Proprietary

LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M

🇺🇸 Liquid AI

Jun 2026 350M
Embedding Open Weights

LFM2.5-Embedding-350M

🇺🇸 Liquid AI

Jun 2026 350M
Embedding Open Weights

GLM-5.2

🇨🇳 Zhipu AI

Jun 2026 744B 1M ctx
Language Open Weights

Kling 3.0 Turbo

Kuaishou

Jun 2026
Video Proprietary

Grok Imagine Video 1.5

🇺🇸 xAI

Jun 2026
Video Proprietary

Cartesia Ink-2

🇺🇸 Cartesia

Jun 2026
Speech Proprietary

Hy-Embodied-0.5-VLA

🇨🇳 Tencent Hunyuan

Jun 2026
Multimodal Open Source

Seedance 2.0 Mini

🇨🇳 ByteDance

Jun 2026
Video Proprietary

Sonic-3.5

🇺🇸 Cartesia

Jun 2026
Speech Proprietary

Kimi K2.7 Code

🇨🇳 Moonshot AI

Jun 2026 1T 256K ctx
Code Open Weights

Chatterbox Multilingual v3

🇺🇸 Resemble AI

Jun 2026 500M
Speech Open Source

DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Jun 2026 26B
Language Open Weights

Claude Fable 5

🇺🇸 Anthropic

Jun 2026 1M ctx
Multimodal Proprietary

Claude Mythos 5

🇺🇸 Anthropic

Jun 2026 1M ctx
Multimodal Proprietary

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Jun 2026 128K ctx
Speech Proprietary

North Mini Code 1.0

🇨🇦 Cohere

Jun 2026 30B 256K ctx
Code Open Weights

Ray3.2

🇺🇸 Luma AI

Jun 2026
Video Proprietary

Apple Foundation Models 3

🇺🇸 Apple

Jun 2026 32K ctx
Multimodal Proprietary

Sculpt4D

🇨🇳 Tencent ARC Lab

Jun 2026
Video Open (Restricted)

Higgs Audio v3 TTS

Boson AI

Jun 2026 4B
Speech Open (Restricted)

Magenta RealTime 2

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Jun 2026 2.4B
Audio Open Weights

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Jun 2026 550B 1M ctx
Language Open Weights

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Jun 2026 600M
Speech Open Weights

ChatMinerva

🇮🇹 Sapienza NLP

Jun 2026 7.4B
Multimodal Open Weights

Gemma 4 12B

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Jun 2026 12B 262.1K ctx
Multimodal Open Weights

Ideogram 4.0

🇨🇦 Ideogram

Jun 2026 9.3B
Image Generation Open Weights

NeuTTS Nano

Neuphonic

Jun 2026 120M
Speech Open Source

Reve 2.0

Reve AI

Jun 2026
Image Generation Proprietary

MAI-Code-1-Flash

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Jun 2026
Code Proprietary

MAI-Image-2.5

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Jun 2026
Image Generation Proprietary

MAI-Thinking-1

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Jun 2026 256K ctx
Language Proprietary

MAI-Transcribe-1.5

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Jun 2026
Speech Proprietary

MAI-Voice-2

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Jun 2026
Speech Proprietary

Microsoft MAI-Image-2.5-Flash

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Jun 2026
Image Generation Proprietary

Microsoft MAI-Voice-2-Flash

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Jun 2026
Speech Proprietary

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Jun 2026 4B 128K ctx
Multimodal Open Weights

MiniMax M3

🇨🇳 MiniMax

Jun 2026 1M ctx
Multimodal Open Weights

NVIDIA Cosmos 3

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Jun 2026 64B
Multimodal Open Weights

Qwen3.7-Plus

🇨🇳 Qwen

Jun 2026 1M ctx
Multimodal Proprietary

Qwen-VLA

🇨🇳 Qwen

May 2026 5.2B
Multimodal Open Weights

Step 3.7 Flash

🇨🇳 StepFun

May 2026 198B 256K ctx
Multimodal Open Weights

Dubbing v2

🇺🇸 ElevenLabs

May 2026
Speech Proprietary

LFM2.5-8B-A1B

🇺🇸 Liquid AI

May 2026 8B 128K ctx
Language Open Weights

Arctic-Text2SQL-R2

🇺🇸 Snowflake

May 2026 64K ctx
Code Proprietary

CubePart

🇺🇸 Roblox

May 2026
Multimodal Open Source

Music v2

🇺🇸 ElevenLabs

May 2026
Audio Proprietary

Rime Coda

Rime

May 2026
Speech Proprietary

Rodin Gen-2.5

Deemos

May 2026 4B
Multimodal Proprietary

StepAudio 2.5 Realtime

🇨🇳 StepFun

May 2026
Speech Proprietary

ETCHR

🇨🇳 Shanghai AI Laboratory

May 2026 9B
Image Generation Open Source

Aleph 2.0

🇺🇸 Runway

May 2026
Video Proprietary

Hunyuan Voice

🇨🇳 Tencent Hunyuan

May 2026
Speech Proprietary

Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash

🇨🇳 Qwen

May 2026
Speech Proprietary

2026 was another fast-moving year for generative AI. The models listed above span large language models (LLMs), image and video generators, code models and more, each with its own parameter count, context window, licensing and availability. To understand how the models of 2026 actually perform, compare their scores on our benchmarks page, and use compare to evaluate any two releases side by side.

Tracking AI by release year makes it easy to see how the frontier moves. Browse AI models from 2025 to compare how capabilities, context windows and open-weights availability evolved year over year.