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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

Gemma 4 31B

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Apr 2026 31B 256K ctx
Open Weights

Gemma 4 E2B

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Apr 2026 2B 256K ctx
Open Weights

Gemma 4 E4B

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Apr 2026 4B 256K ctx
Open Weights

MAI-Transcribe-1

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Apr 2026
Proprietary

LaSER-Qwen3-0.6B

🇨🇳 Qwen

Mar 2026 600M 8.2K ctx
Embedding Open Weights

LaSER-Qwen3-4B

🇨🇳 Qwen

Mar 2026 4B 8.2K ctx
Embedding Open Weights

LaSER-Qwen3-8B

🇨🇳 Qwen

Mar 2026 8B 8.2K ctx
Embedding Open Weights

Harrier-OSS-v1-0.6B

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Mar 2026 600M 32.8K ctx
Embedding Open Weights

Harrier-OSS-v1-270M

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Mar 2026 270M 32.8K ctx
Embedding Open Weights

Harrier-OSS-v1-27B

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Mar 2026 27B 32.8K ctx
Embedding Open Weights

Qwen3.6-Plus

🇨🇳 Qwen

Mar 2026 1M ctx
Proprietary

Cohere Transcribe

🇨🇦 Cohere

Mar 2026 2B
Open Source

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Mar 2026
Proprietary

Voxtral TTS

🇫🇷 Mistral AI

Mar 2026
Open Source

Lyria 3 Pro

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Mar 2026
Proprietary

FastwebMIIA 7B (2026)

🇮🇹 Fastweb

Mar 2026 7B
Language Open Weights

MAI-Image-2

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Mar 2026
Proprietary

GPT-5.4 mini

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Mar 2026
Proprietary

GPT-5.4 nano

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Mar 2026
Proprietary

Midjourney V8

🇺🇸 Midjourney

Mar 2026
Proprietary

Mistral Small 4

🇫🇷 Mistral AI

Mar 2026 119B 256K ctx
Open Weights

Wholembed v3

Mixedbread

Mar 2026
Embedding Proprietary

Gemini Embedding 2

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Mar 2026 8.2K ctx
Embedding Proprietary

Granite 4.0 1B Speech

🇺🇸 IBM

Mar 2026 1B
Open Source

GPT-5.4

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Mar 2026 1.1M ctx
Proprietary

GPT-5.4 Thinking

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Mar 2026 1.1M ctx
Proprietary

Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Mar 2026 15B
Open Weights

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Mar 2026
Proprietary

Qwen 3.5 Small 0.8B

🇨🇳 Qwen

Mar 2026 800M
Open Source

Qwen 3.5 Small 2B

🇨🇳 Qwen

Mar 2026 2B
Open Source

Qwen 3.5 Small 4B

🇨🇳 Qwen

Mar 2026 4B
Open Source

Qwen 3.5 Small 9B

🇨🇳 Qwen

Mar 2026 9B
Open Source

nesso 0.4B Agentic

🇮🇹 mii-llm

Mar 2026 400M
Language Open Weights

nesso 0.4B Instruct

🇮🇹 mii-llm

Mar 2026 400M
Language Open Weights

nesso 4B

🇮🇹 mii-llm

Mar 2026 4B
Language Open Weights

Mercury 2

🇺🇸 Inception Labs

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Gemini 3.1 Pro

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Feb 2026 1M ctx
Proprietary

Llama-NV-Embed-Reasoning-3B

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Feb 2026 3.2B 8.2K ctx
Embedding Open (Restricted)

Claude Sonnet 4.6

🇺🇸 Anthropic

Feb 2026 1M ctx
Proprietary

Grok 4.20

🇺🇸 xAI

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Qwen3.5

🇨🇳 Qwen

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Recraft V4

🇬🇧 Recraft

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Qwen3.5-397B-A17B

🇨🇳 Qwen

Feb 2026 397B 262.1K ctx
Open Weights

Qwen3.5-Plus

🇨🇳 Qwen

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Seedance 2.0

🇨🇳 ByteDance

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Seed 2.0 Code

🇨🇳 ByteDance

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Seed 2.0 Lite

🇨🇳 ByteDance

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Seed 2.0 Mini

🇨🇳 ByteDance

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Seed 2.0 Pro

🇨🇳 ByteDance

Feb 2026
Proprietary

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Feb 2026
Proprietary

MiniMax-M2.5

🇨🇳 MiniMax

Feb 2026 230B
Open Weights

GLM-5

🇨🇳 Zhipu AI

Feb 2026 744B
Proprietary

LateOn-Code

🇫🇷 LightOn

Feb 2026 130M 8.2K ctx
Embedding Open Weights

Claude Opus 4.6

🇺🇸 Anthropic

Feb 2026 1M ctx
Proprietary

GPT-5.3-Codex

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Feb 2026
Proprietary

LateOn-Code-edge

🇫🇷 LightOn

Feb 2026 17M 8.2K ctx
Embedding Open Weights

Kling 3.0

🇨🇳 Kuaishou Technology

Feb 2026
Proprietary

Eleven v3 GA

🇺🇸 ElevenLabs

Feb 2026
Proprietary

LongCat-Flash-Lite

🇨🇳 Meituan

Jan 2026 68.5B 256K ctx
Open Source

Kimi K2.5

🇨🇳 Moonshot

Jan 2026 1T 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.