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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

Command A+

🇨🇦 Cohere

May 2026 218B 128K ctx
Multimodal Open Weights

Grok Build 0.1

🇺🇸 xAI

May 2026 256K ctx
Code Proprietary

Qwen3.7-Max

🇨🇳 Qwen

May 2026 1M ctx
Language Proprietary

Stable Audio 3.0

🇺🇸 Stability AI

May 2026 2.7B
Audio Open (Restricted)

Gemini 3.5 Flash

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

May 2026 1M ctx
Multimodal Proprietary

Gemini Omni

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

May 2026
Video Proprietary

OlmoEarth v1.1

🇺🇸 Allen Institute for AI

May 2026
Multimodal Open Source

SkyClaw-v1.0

🇨🇳 Skywork

May 2026 1M ctx
Language Proprietary

Intern-S2-Preview

🇨🇳 Shanghai AI Laboratory

May 2026 35B 262.1K ctx
Multimodal Open Weights

Falcon Perception

🇦🇪 Technology Innovation Institute

May 2026 600M
Multimodal Open Weights

Recraft V4.1

🇬🇧 Recraft

May 2026
Image Generation Proprietary

Falcon-OCR

🇦🇪 Technology Innovation Institute

May 2026 300M
Multimodal Open Source

Domyn Small

🇮🇹 Domyn

May 2026 10B
Language Open Weights

Krea 2

Krea

May 2026
Image Generation Proprietary

ERNIE 5.1

🇨🇳 Baidu

May 2026
Language Proprietary

mxbai-rerank-v3-listwise

Mixedbread

May 2026
Embedding Open Weights

GPT-Realtime-2

🇺🇸 OpenAI

May 2026 128K ctx
Audio Proprietary

GPT-Realtime-Translate

🇺🇸 OpenAI

May 2026
Speech Proprietary

GPT-Realtime-Whisper

🇺🇸 OpenAI

May 2026
Speech Proprietary

Hyperion 2

Topaz Labs

May 2026
Video Proprietary

TripoSplat

VAST-AI Research

May 2026
Image Generation Open Source

jina-embeddings-v5-omni

Jina AI

May 2026 1.7B 32.8K ctx
Embedding Open (Restricted)

GPT-5.5 Instant

🇺🇸 OpenAI

May 2026
Language Proprietary

Inworld Realtime TTS-2

Inworld AI

May 2026
Speech Proprietary

MolmoAct 2

🇺🇸 Allen Institute for AI

May 2026
Multimodal Open Source

Uni-1.1

🇺🇸 Luma AI

May 2026
Image Generation Proprietary

Grok 4.3

🇺🇸 xAI

May 2026 1M ctx
Multimodal Proprietary

Mistral Medium 3.5

🇫🇷 Mistral AI

May 2026 128B 256K ctx
Multimodal Open (Restricted)

Midjourney V8.1

🇺🇸 Midjourney

Apr 2026
Image Generation Proprietary

Pixal3D

🇨🇳 Tencent ARC Lab

Apr 2026
Image Generation Open Source

Deepgram Flux Multilingual

🇺🇸 Deepgram

Apr 2026
Speech Proprietary

Granite Embedding Multilingual R2

🇺🇸 IBM

Apr 2026 97M
Embedding Open Source

IBM Granite 4.1

🇺🇸 IBM

Apr 2026 30B 512K ctx
Language Open Source

SenseNova U1

🇨🇳 SenseTime

Apr 2026 8B 32.8K ctx
Multimodal Open Source

Step Image Edit 2

🇨🇳 StepFun

Apr 2026 3.5B
Image Generation Proprietary

Step-Audio-R1.5

🇨🇳 StepFun

Apr 2026
Speech Open Weights

Astra 2

Topaz Labs

Apr 2026
Video Proprietary

Kandinsky 6.0 Image

🇷🇺 Sber

Apr 2026
Image Generation Proprietary

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Apr 2026 31.6B 256K ctx
Multimodal Open Weights

Wonder 3

Topaz Labs

Apr 2026
Image Generation Proprietary

Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0

🇺🇸 xAI

Apr 2026
Speech Proprietary

DeepSeek V4-Flash

🇨🇳 DeepSeek

Apr 2026 284B 1M ctx
Open Source

DeepSeek V4-Pro

🇨🇳 DeepSeek

Apr 2026 1.6T 1M ctx
Open Source

GPT-5.5

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Apr 2026 1M ctx
Proprietary

GPT-5.5 Pro

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Apr 2026 1M ctx
Proprietary

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview

🇨🇳 Qwen

Apr 2026 1M ctx
Proprietary

granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2

🇺🇸 IBM

Apr 2026 97M 32.8K ctx
Embedding Open Weights

Claude Opus 4.7

🇺🇸 Anthropic

Apr 2026
Proprietary

Trinity-Large-Thinking

🇺🇸 Arcee AI

Apr 2026 400B
Open Source

Kimi K2.6

🇨🇳 Moonshot

Apr 2026 1T 256K ctx
Open (Restricted)

MiniMax M2.7

🇨🇳 MiniMax

Apr 2026
Open Source

Muse Spark

🇺🇸 Meta AI

Apr 2026
Proprietary

Claude Mythos Preview

🇺🇸 Anthropic

Apr 2026
Proprietary

GLM-5.1

🇨🇳 Zhipu AI

Apr 2026 754B
Open Weights

GLM-5V-Turbo

🇨🇳 Zhipu AI

Apr 2026
Proprietary

GPT-5 Turbo

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Apr 2026
Proprietary

Trinity-Large-Preview

🇺🇸 Arcee AI

Apr 2026 400B
Open Source

Nemotron 3 Super

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Apr 2026
Open Weights

Gemini Nano 4

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Apr 2026
Proprietary

Gemma 4 26B

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Apr 2026 26B 256K ctx
Open Weights

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.