Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon
Google's frontier model announced on 28 October 2026, released first to cyber defenders and reporting leading scores on intelligence, coding and cybersecurity benchmarks.
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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon
Google gave Gemini 4 Argon to trusted security partners in September 2026 and released it worldwide on 13 October, opening its newest frontier model to developers, enterprises and subscribers while naming Gemini 4 Carbon as the next model in the family.
IBM releases Granite 4.2 with built-in reasoning modes
IBM released the Granite 4.2 family on 25 August 2026, with native reasoning that streams inside think tags and can be switched between full, low-effort and non-thinking modes per query.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model, as a cloud service on 3 August 2026, and published open weights for a variant of it on 12 August 2026.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B open model
On 4 June 2026 NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, the largest model in its Nemotron 3 family, with 550 billion total parameters and 55 billion active per token.
Microsoft AI launches seven MAI models led by MAI-Thinking-1
On 2 June 2026 Mustafa Suleyman announced seven new in-house MAI models at Microsoft Build, led by the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1. The group also included coding, image, transcription and voice models, and a healthcare collaboration with Mayo Clinic.
DeepSeek releases the DeepSeek-V4 preview with a 1M-token context
On 24 April 2026 DeepSeek released the DeepSeek-V4 preview, two open mixture-of-experts models with a 1M-token context that became the default across its official services. Both models support thinking and non-thinking modes.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Thinking and GPT-5.5 Pro to paid ChatGPT users on 23 April 2026, then extended the models to Codex and the API, reporting strong benchmark results and later making a faster GPT-5.5 Instant the default.
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Spark
On 8 April 2026 Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark, the first model from the lab and the first of the Muse series. It is closed: its weights were not released, and it was offered through a private API preview.
Mistral AI releases Mistral Small 4
On 16 March 2026, Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4, a 119B mixture-of-experts model under Apache 2.0 that combines reasoning, image input and agentic coding in one model.
Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B
On 4 March 2026 Microsoft released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, an MIT-licensed open-weight model that combines a reasoning backbone with a vision encoder and chooses how to answer each task.
Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro
On 19 February 2026 Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview, a model that scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark — more than double Gemini 3 Pro — and was made available the same day in the Gemini app, the Gemini API and Vertex AI.
Runway raises $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation
On 10 February 2026 Runway announced a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation, nearly double its previous valuation, and said the money would fund pre-training of next-generation world models.
xAI releases Grok 4.20 with a multi-agent mode
Grok 4.20 was released in February 2026, the month xAI became a SpaceX subsidiary. Its multi-agent version, in which agents collaborate on deep research, went live in the API in March 2026.
Baichuan releases the open Baichuan-M3 medical model
On 13 January 2026 Baichuan released Baichuan-M3, a new-generation open-source medical-enhanced LLM, at a media briefing.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after a "code red"
On 11 December 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5.2 in Instant, Thinking and Pro versions, billing it as stronger at professional work and reporting scores that, on OpenAI's GDPval evaluation, matched or beat human experts.
Runway announces GWM-1, its first world model
On 11 December 2025, Runway announced GWM-1, a general world model that simulates environments in real time, released in Worlds, Avatars and Robotics variants and built on the company's Gen-4.5 model.
Tencent releases HY 2.0 with Think and Instruct versions
On 5 December 2025 Tencent released HY 2.0 in Think and Instruct versions, a 406-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 256K context, integrated into Yuanbao and ima.
Amazon launches Nova 2 and Nova Forge at re:Invent 2025
On 2 December 2025, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon released the Nova 2 family, led by the reasoning model Nova 2 Lite. The same event introduced Nova Forge, made Nova Act generally available and launched Trainium3 UltraServers.
DeepSeek releases V3.2 and gold-medal-level V3.2-Speciale
On 1 December 2025 DeepSeek released V3.2, the official successor to V3.2-Exp, and V3.2-Speciale, a version built to maximize reasoning. Both had their weights published on Hugging Face, and V3.2-Speciale was reported to reach gold-level results at several international competitions.
DeepSeekMath-V2 reaches gold-medal level on IMO 2025 problems
On 27 November 2025 DeepSeek released DeepSeekMath-V2, a model trained to check its own proofs. DeepSeek reported gold-level scores on IMO 2025 problems and 118 of 120 points on Putnam 2024, the latter with scaled test-time compute.