Models

OpenAI's cybersecurity-focused model, released on 5 November 2026 and limited to the top tier of its Daybreak Red programme; OpenAI says it surfaced 948 potential Linux kernel issues and 81 novel Firefox vulnerabilities.

Large language modelsReasoningSafety & governance

Gemini 4 Carbon is a Google DeepMind frontier model announced on 28 October 2026, two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, with Google claiming state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.

Large language modelsReasoningSafety & governance

OpenAI's late-2026 model family: Sol, released at DevDay on 29 September 2026, and the faster, cheaper Terra on 26 October 2026. A planned Astra version was withheld over safety concerns.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

PixVerse R2 is a real-time world model announced on 22 September 2026, an upgrade to R1 that keeps a navigable world generating while the user moves inside it and holds state across a session.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Grok 4.7 is xAI's September 2026 flagship model for coding and knowledge work, built on a larger base model than Grok 4.6 with longer reinforcement learning and a new safeguard stack, at unchanged token prices.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

Vidu S2 is a two-part video generation system: S2-Avatar renders interactive digital characters at 720p in real time, and S2-Editing transforms live video streams. Both also produce stereo views for immersive displays.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's fast, low-cost model released on 2 September 2026, alongside a cybersecurity variant, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, with introductory pricing that doubles at the start of 2027.

Large language modelsReasoningSafety & governance

Claude Fable 5.1, released on 1 September 2026, keeps the $10 and $50 per million token price of Fable 5, with cache reads 75% cheaper. Its sibling Claude Mythos 5.1 is limited to trusted-access programmes.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

SenseNova U1.5 is SenseTime's open-weight, 8-billion-parameter model that handles image understanding, reasoning and native 4K generation in a single network, without separate vision encoders or VAEs. It is released under the Apache License 2.0.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

GLM-5.3 is Zhipu's open-weight language model released on 14 August 2026. It keeps the GLM-5.2 base model and gains its improvements from post-training, with reported state-of-the-art open results on agentic coding and cybersecurity benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Claude Opus 5, released on 24 July 2026 at $5 and $25 per million tokens, is Anthropic's most aligned model to date and its most capable generally available model for scientific research.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

OpenAI's three-model family released on 9 July 2026 — Luna, Terra and Sol, ordered from least to most capable — with Sol pitched as the company's strongest coding and agent model.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

Muse Image and Muse Video are Meta Superintelligence Labs' first media generation models, announced on 7 July 2026. Muse Image launched immediately, and Muse Video entered early preview.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Vidu S1 is Shengshu's real-time interactive video generation model, released in July 2026. It takes spoken commands as control input, runs on consumer GPUs at 540p and up to 42 frames per second, and keeps generating without drift.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's Mythos-class model for general use, released on 9 June 2026. Its sibling Claude Mythos 5 is the same model with some safeguards lifted for vetted users.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

Released on 28 May 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.8 added a fast mode at 2.5 times the speed, with fewer unnoticed flaws in its own code. Anthropic called it a modest but tangible improvement.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

SenseNova U1 is SenseTime's open-weight multimodal model family, first released in April 2026 under Apache 2.0, which understands and generates images without a separate visual encoder or VAE.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

GPT-5.5 is an OpenAI model released on 23 April 2026 as GPT-5.5 Thinking and Pro, with an API version the next day. It succeeded GPT-5.4 and had a cybersecurity variant in limited preview.

Large language modelsReasoningSafety & governance

GPT Image 2 is OpenAI's image generation and editing model released on 21 April 2026, also presented as ChatGPT Images 2.0. It succeeded GPT Image 1 and was followed within months by the Sunburst and Flare model lines.

Consumer appsCreative toolsImage generation

Released on 16 April 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.6, Claude Opus 4.7 added an xhigh effort level and accepted much larger images. It was the first model to test automatic blocking of high-risk cybersecurity requests.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

Claude Mythos Preview, announced on 7 April 2026, is an unreleased frontier model that Anthropic made available only to restricted partners through Project Glasswing, a programme for securing critical software.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useReasoning

MAI-Image-2 is Microsoft AI's second-generation text-to-image model, released to developers on 2 April 2026 in Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground, with faster generation and stronger lighting, skin tones and in-image text.

EnterpriseGenerative modelsCreative tools

Midjourney V8, released as an alpha on 17 March 2026, generates images about five times faster than earlier versions, adds a native 2K mode, and improves rendering of text inside images.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Nano Banana 2 is Google's product name for Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, an image generation and editing model in the Gemini API, released in preview on 26 February 2026 and later replaced by Nano Banana 2.1.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation

Runway Gen-4.5 is a video generation model released in December 2025 that topped the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard and later gained native audio, multi-shot editing and a role as the base for Runway's GWM-1 world model.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

FLUX.2 is Black Forest Labs' image generation and editing model family, released on 25 November 2025, spanning hosted tiers and open-weight releases, with support for 4-megapixel output and up to 10 reference images.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) is Google's image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro, announced on 20 November 2025. It renders legible text, pulls live information from Search, and outputs up to 4K.

EnterpriseGenerative modelsCreative tools

MAI-Image-1 is Microsoft's first image generation model developed entirely in-house, announced on 13 October 2025 and rolled out in Bing Image Creator and Copilot from 4 November 2025.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Sora 2 is OpenAI's second-generation video and audio generation model, unveiled on 30 September 2025 with a social iOS app. OpenAI discontinued Sora in 2026, and its API models were scheduled to shut down in September 2026.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsSafety & governance

Claude Sonnet 4.5, released on 29 September 2025, was a drop-in replacement for Sonnet 4 at the same price. Anthropic reported that it could stay focused on complex tasks for more than 30 hours.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

An open-source image generation model from Tencent that handles image understanding and generation inside a single autoregressive mixture-of-experts framework; its code, weights and technical report were released in September 2025.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Seedream 4.0 is ByteDance Seed's image model released in September 2025, which puts text-to-image generation, image editing and multi-image composition into a single architecture and can output images from 1K up to 4K resolution.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Nicknamed "nano-banana", Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Google's image generation and editing model released on 26 August 2025, able to blend images, keep characters consistent across edits and apply targeted natural-language edits.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

A 20-billion-parameter open-weights image generation model released by Qwen in August 2025, notable for rendering text inside images, especially Chinese.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

Runway Aleph is a video model released in July 2025 that edits an input video by adding, removing or transforming objects, generating a new angle of a scene, or changing style and lighting, across many visual tasks.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

Midjourney's first video model, released on 18 June 2025, turns an existing image into a short clip of about five seconds. It was presented as the company's first step toward real-time open-world simulation.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

FLUX.1 Kontext is a family of image models from Black Forest Labs, announced on 29 May 2025, that generates and edits pictures from both text and image inputs. Its open-weight dev variant followed in June 2025.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, announced on 22 May 2025, were hybrid models with extended thinking. Anthropic called Opus 4 the best coding model in the world, and Claude Code became generally available the same day.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useReasoning

Imagen 4 is a Google text-to-image model announced on 20 May 2025 that outputs images at up to 2K resolution with improved fine detail and typography, shipping in the Gemini app, Whisk, Vertex AI and Workspace before its API models were retired in 2026.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation

An open image-editing model from StepFun released in April 2025 under Apache 2.0, pairing a multimodal language model with a diffusion image decoder and shipping weights, inference code and the GEdit-Bench evaluation set.

Open sourceChinaCreative tools

Seedream 3.0 is ByteDance Seed's Chinese–English image-generation foundation model of 2025, improving on Seedream 2.0 in prompt alignment, Chinese text rendering and native 2K output. Seedream 4.0 succeeded it in September 2025.

ChinaGenerative modelsCreative tools

Midjourney V7 is an image generation model released as an alpha to Midjourney's community on 4 April 2025, the first of the company's models to have personalization on by default and the first to add a cheap, fast Draft Mode.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Runway Gen-4 is a video generation model released on 31 March 2025 that keeps characters, locations and objects consistent across shots, working from reference images and text instructions rather than per-project training.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

Step-Video-T2V is an open text-to-video model with 30 billion parameters. StepFun released its weights, code, a Turbo variant and a technical report under the MIT license on 17 February 2025.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

Janus-Pro is DeepSeek's January 2025 multimodal model that handles both image understanding and text-to-image generation in one system, released in 1B and 7B sizes as a stronger successor to Janus.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

A family of text-to-image models from Stability AI, announced in October 2024: the 8.1-billion-parameter Large, a 4-step Turbo variant and the 2.5-billion-parameter Medium, released under a community licence.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Movie Gen is a set of media foundation models Meta premiered on 4 October 2024. It covers video generation, personalised video, precise video editing and audio generation, and was not released publicly.

Foundation modelsGenerative modelsCreative tools

A closed text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs, released on 2 October 2024 and available only through an API. Black Forest Labs said it generates six times faster than its predecessor, and it reached the top of the Artificial Analysis image arena leaderboard.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation

xAI's Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, released in August 2024 as a beta for X subscribers, added image input, posted competitive benchmark scores and later had their weights published.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

FLUX.1 is a family of 12-billion-parameter text-to-image models released by Black Forest Labs on 1 August 2024 in pro, dev and schnell variants. The dev version is open-weight, and the variants carry different licenses.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Kolors is Kuaishou's open-weight text-to-image model, released on 6 July 2024, built on latent diffusion and tuned for both Chinese and English prompts.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

Runway's 2024 video generation model, trained jointly on video and images, with finer temporal control such as keyframing; later extended with an API, video-to-video and Act-One performance capture.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

Apple Foundation Models (AFM, 2024) are the first generation of the models behind Apple Intelligence: a roughly 3-billion-parameter on-device model and a larger server model that runs in Private Cloud Compute.

Large language modelsConsumer appsFoundation models

Google's text-to-image model announced at I/O in May 2024, which Google described as its highest-quality image generator, with fewer visual artifacts and improved text rendering.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation