Next AI Model follows every release from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, Meta, Mistral, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Microsoft, Moonshot (Kimi), Z.ai (GLM), Xiaomi (MiMo), ByteDance (Seed, Seedream, Seedance), Black Forest Labs (FLUX), NVIDIA (Nemotron), MiniMax (MiniMax M, Hailuo) and Kuaishou (Kling): what each new model changed, in the maker's own numbers, and which lines are due next by their own release rhythm.
Every AI model line we track, grouped by where it stands in its own release rhythm, likeliest to release first; within a group, bigger makers first. Each card compares the days since the last release with the line's usual gap. Closed models and open-weight models are listed separately. What the labels mean
Latest: Grok 4.7 · Sep 21, 2026
“Grok 4.8, which is a 2.5T model trained with our new C++ software stack, will finish training this week and start RL” — xAI, Sep 14, 2026 · Elon Musk on X
What changed in Grok 4.7 →Latest: Doubao-Seed-2.1-Pro · Jun 23, 2026
Latest: Muse Spark 1.3 · Sep 2, 2026
Latest: Qwen3.8-Max-0902 · Sep 2, 2026
38 lines closed by the maker or without a release in over a year: see every line we track.
Every Monday, only when something shipped: the AI models that came out, what each one changed, and which lines are due next.
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The latest releases, newest first. Open a model to see what changed, in numbers, against the model it replaces.
OpenAI's most recent flagship release is GPT-6.1 Sol (GPT line, September 29, 2026); its other flagship line's latest model is GPT-6 Astra (GPT Astra line, September 4, 2026). It shipped 20 days ago, and the line's usual gap is about 75 days. We only report official announcements, never rumored release dates.
Anthropic's most recent flagship release is Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Opus line, September 22, 2026); its other flagship line's latest model is Claude Fable 5.1 (Claude Fable line, September 1, 2026). The line's usual gap is about 60 days and 27 have passed, so it is mid-cycle. We only report official announcements, never rumored release dates.
Google's newest flagship model is Gemini 4 Argon, released on October 13, 2026. It shipped 6 days ago, and the line's usual gap is about 236 days. We only report official announcements, never rumored release dates.
The most recent releases we track are DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 by DeepSeek (Oct 17, 2026), Muse Spark Open by Meta (Oct 15, 2026) and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL by NVIDIA (Oct 15, 2026). The archive lists every release, newest first.
Each line's usual gap is the median of its last five gaps between releases, counting launches less than a week apart as one. A line is Due from 85% to 100% of that gap, Longer than usual after that, Mid-cycle in between, and Just released during the first third. In our archive, about 1 in 3 Due lines got a new model within a month, about twice the average. Lines with fewer than two gaps between releases are marked “Too early to call”, because their usual gap is not known yet, and lines with exactly two say “from only 2 gaps”, because such a short history is only a rough guide. It is a reading of the line's own rhythm, not insider information.
We tested a simple forecast, the usual gap plus or minus 15 days, against every release in our archive: it would have been right fewer than 1 time in 5. Release rhythms are too irregular for a date to be honest, so we show where each line stands instead.