AI model release tracker

Changelog

• Oct 21, 2026: Added Mistral Voxtral 3, launched October 20, 2026. Mistral states no license, so the open-weights column records that one report calls it open-weight. Added Inception Mercury 3, a diffusion language model launched October 19, 2026, with a 1M-token context; its article does not report whether the weights are open. Added ElevenLabs Eleven Realtime v1 Max and v1 Mini, speech-to-speech voice models launched October 20, 2026; the article reports neither a context window nor whether the weights are open. Reviewed the PHP 8.5.12, DuckDB 2.0 and Pigment stories too; none announces a model.
• Oct 20, 2026: Added Cloudflare Clairic, previewed October 19, 2026. Reviewed the AMD GAIA 0.25 and Tenstorrent Series E stories too; neither announces a model, so neither adds a row. Added MiniMax M3.1 Flash, rolled out October 19, 2026.
• Oct 18, 2026: Updated Beam: Reflection released its weights under Apache 2.0 on October 16, 2026, so the open-weights column now reads Yes.
• Oct 17, 2026: Added StepFun Step 5 Preview, announced September 20, 2026, whose open weights are now on Hugging Face after being promised for October 15.
• Oct 17, 2026: Added Glimpse, Elorian's first model, released on October 16, 2026 as an API research preview. Elorian has not published its context window, and the story does not say whether its weights are open.
• Oct 17, 2026: Added DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, the October 17, 2026 update to V4.1 Flash with MIT-licensed weights and a 1M-token context, and Ling-3.1-flash, Ant Group's 560B open-weight model under the MIT license, whose Hugging Face repository dates from October 13, 2026.
• Oct 16, 2026: Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B now shows open weights, citing the RTX Spark launch story, which reports Nvidia's statement that the model's training data, weights and recipes are open. China's draft AI export rules name no model, so no row was added for them.
• Oct 16, 2026: Added Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, Bolt 74B-A9B and Bolt E4B, the three Nemotron 3.5 models Nvidia announced on October 15, 2026, and FLUX 3 Image Klein, the 5.6B open-weight image model Black Forest Labs released the same day. Microsoft's MAI-Base-2 has finished pre-training but is not released, so no row was added for it.
• Oct 16, 2026: Added Jais 3, the six open Arabic models from 0.9B to 375B parameters that MBZUAI IFM and Inception42 released on October 15, 2026, and its Jais Speech recognition model.
• Oct 15, 2026: Added Grok Voice 3.0, the speech-to-speech model xAI released in its Voice Agent API on October 14, 2026. The Amazon Bee, CERN-Mistral and Sony Walkman stories announced no AI model release, so no rows were added for them.
• Oct 15, 2026: Added Muse Spark Open, the open-weight Muse Spark model Meta released on October 15, 2026 (816B parameters, 42B active, 1M-token context). The Cohere-AISLE deal announced no model, so no row was added for it.
• Oct 15, 2026: Added four decision models from the AI decision models explainer: Perplexity pplx-decider (October 1), Liquid AI d1-3B and d1-omni-600M (October 7) and Cloudflare Clef-omni (October 9), 2026.
• Oct 15, 2026: Added Microsoft-Decision-1, the decision-scoring model Microsoft released in Foundry on October 9, 2026. The Anthropic distillation-defenses story announced no new model, so no row was added for it.
• Oct 13, 2026: Gemini 4 Argon became generally available on October 13, 2026; its row now carries the 1,048,576-token context window that article reports.
• Oct 13, 2026: Added Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, the frontier models Meta released on October 12, 2026. The TypeSafe AI funding story reported no new model, so Jev's existing row is unchanged.
• Oct 12, 2026: Added GLM-Legal, Z.ai's legal-domain model, announced October 12, 2026. Its own context window is not reported; it is offered through a gated API beta.
• Oct 10, 2026: Added 25 models from the launch stories published September 15 to October 9, 2026. Cells repeat only what the linked article states; anything it does not state, including open weights for closed models, is marked not reported.
• Sep 5, 2026: Tracker created from the model-launch stories published between August 27 and September 4, 2026. Every cell repeats what the linked article reported; unknowns are marked, never guessed.