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AI Model Release Tracker

Curated foundation model and API releases across modalities. Updated as new drops are added to the directory.

July 2026 (9)

May 2026 (26)

GPT-5.5 Instant

May 5, 2026

OpenAI's fast default ChatGPT model from May 2026

LLM Freemium

Cursor Composer 2.5

May 18, 2026

Cursor's agentic coding model for multi-file software engineering

CodingLLM Paid

Gemini 3.5 Flash

May 19, 2026

Google's fast, capable multimodal model from I/O 2026

LLMMultimodal Freemium

Grok Build

May 14, 2026

xAI's agentic coding CLI for autonomous software engineering

CodingLLM Freemium

Claude Opus 4.8

May 28, 2026

Anthropic's powerful enterprise model from May 2026

LLMCoding Paid

Gemini Omni

May 19, 2026

Google's unified multimodal generation model

LLMText-to-ImageText-to-VideoText-to-AudioMultimodal Freemium

Runway Aleph 2.0

May 21, 2026

In-context video editing model and Edit Studio

Text-to-VideoImage-to-VideoVideo-to-Video Paid

Gemini Spark

May 19, 2026

Google's personal AI agent for proactive assistance

LLM Freemium

Mistral Vibe

May 28, 2026

Mistral's unified work and coding agent

LLMCoding Freemium

DeepSeek V4-Pro

May 31, 2026

DeepSeek's open-weight model with permanent pricing

LLMCodingMultimodal Freemium

GPT-Image-2

May 10, 2026

OpenAI's latest image generation model

Text-to-ImageImage-to-Image Freemium

FLUX.2 [max]

May 15, 2026

Black Forest Labs' top-tier image generation model

Text-to-ImageImage-to-Image Paid

MiniMax M3

May 31, 2026

MiniMax's 1M-context agentic frontier model

LLM Freemium

StepFun Step 3.7 Flash

May 29, 2026

StepFun's 198B MoE vision-language model

LLMMultimodal Freemium

Recraft V4

May 20, 2026

Design and brand image generation with vector support

Text-to-ImageImage-to-Image Freemium

ElevenLabs Music v2

May 26, 2026

AI music generation with professional controls

Text-to-Audio Freemium

Nano Banana 2

May 22, 2026

Google's fast text-to-image model via Fal

Text-to-Image Freemium

ElevenLabs Dubbing v2

May 28, 2026

AI-powered video dubbing in multiple languages

Text-to-Audio Freemium

Udio v4

May 15, 2026

AI music generation with stems and inpainting

Text-to-Audio Freemium

Tripo v3.1

May 25, 2026

Fast text-to-3D and image-to-3D generation

Text-to-3DImage-to-3D Freemium

Rodin Gen-2

May 27, 2026

Hyper3D's image-to-3D generation model

Image-to-3DText-to-3D Freemium

GPT Image 2

May 3, 2026

OpenAI quality-first image generation and editing

Text-to-ImageImage-to-Image Paid

HappyHorse 1.0

May 3, 2026

Alibaba flagship video with joint audio and multilingual lip-sync

Text-to-VideoImage-to-VideoVideo-to-Video Paid

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni

May 3, 2026

One multimodal model for text, vision, audio, and video reasoning

LLMMultimodal Paid

Meshy 6

May 3, 2026

Multi-image to production-grade 3D on next-gen Meshy

Image-to-3DText-to-3D Freemium

Decart Lucy 2.1 VTON

May 3, 2026

Real-time virtual try-on in video

Video-to-Video Paid

February 2026 (105)

Claude Opus 4.6

Feb 6, 2026

The ceiling of enterprise autonomy with 1M context

LLMCoding Paid

NotebookLM

Feb 4, 2026

Google's AI Research Assistant: The Ultimate Study Tool

LLMText-to-Audio Free

Kling AI

Feb 6, 2026

The frontier of cinematic video synthesis

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video Freemium

Grok

Feb 5, 2026

xAI's real-time AI assistant

LLM Paid

DeepSeek

Feb 5, 2026

The Efficiency Revolution: Frontier Intelligence at 1/100th the Cost

LLMMultimodal Freemium

Suno

Feb 5, 2026

Text-to-music & vocals with fast iteration

Text-to-Audio Freemium

Llama

Feb 5, 2026

Meta's open-source large language model

LLM Free

Mistral AI

Feb 5, 2026

European open-source and commercial LLM

LLM Freemium

ElevenLabs

Feb 5, 2026

High-quality TTS and voice tools

Text-to-Audio Freemium

Cohere

Feb 5, 2026

Enterprise-focused LLM platform

LLM Paid

Qwen

Feb 5, 2026

Alibaba's multilingual open-source LLM

LLM Freemium

Microsoft Phi

Feb 5, 2026

Microsoft's efficient small language models

LLM Free

Gemma

Feb 5, 2026

Google's open-source lightweight LLM

LLM Free

DBRX

Feb 5, 2026

Databricks' high-performance open-source LLM

LLM Freemium

Resemble AI

Feb 5, 2026

Voice generation and cloning tools

Text-to-Audio

Veo 3.1

Feb 5, 2026

Google's state-of-the-art video generation model

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video Paid

Sora 2

Feb 5, 2026

OpenAI's state-of-the-art video model with audio

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video Paid

Kling 2.6 Pro

Feb 5, 2026

Top-tier image-to-video with native audio generation

Image-to-Video Paid

Kling AI

Feb 5, 2026

Text/image-to-video generation (availability varies)

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video

Runway

Feb 5, 2026

Text/image-to-video creation suite with editing tools

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video Paid

Pika

Feb 5, 2026

Text/image-to-video with Pikaffects (squish, melt, explode)

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video Freemium

HeyGen

Feb 5, 2026

Avatar and talking-head video generation

Text-to-Video Paid

Ray2 Flash

Feb 5, 2026

Fast video generation from Luma Dream Machine

Image-to-Video Freemium

Synthesia

Feb 5, 2026

AI avatar video creation for teams

Text-to-Video Paid

Hailuo 2.3 Fast

Feb 5, 2026

Fast 1080p image-to-video from MiniMax

Image-to-Video Paid

Midjourney

Feb 5, 2026

High-end image generation with strong aesthetics

Image-to-Image Paid

OmniHuman v1.5

Feb 5, 2026

Audio-driven human animation from ByteDance

Image-to-Video Paid

D-ID

Feb 5, 2026

Talking avatar videos from images and scripts

Image-to-VideoText-to-Video Paid

Wan 2.1

Feb 5, 2026

Open-source image-to-video with LoRA support

Image-to-Video Free

Hunyuan Video

Feb 5, 2026

Tencent's high-quality open video model

Image-to-Video Free

Ideogram

Feb 5, 2026

Text-to-image with strong typography (varies by model)

Image-to-Image Freemium

Leonardo AI

Feb 5, 2026

Image generation with workflows and models

Image-to-Image Freemium

Wan 2.6 Text-to-Video

Feb 5, 2026

Latest Wan model for text-to-video generation

Text-to-Video

Kaiber

Feb 5, 2026

Stylized image/video animation for creators

Image-to-VideoImage-to-Image Paid

Hunyuan Video 1.5

Feb 5, 2026

Tencent's latest text-to-video model

Text-to-Video

Adobe Firefly

Feb 5, 2026

Generative image tools inside Adobe ecosystem

Image-to-Image Paid

LTX-2

Feb 5, 2026

Fast text-to-video with audio support

Text-to-Video

Hunyuan 3D

Feb 5, 2026

Tencent's high-quality 3D generation engine

Text-to-3DImage-to-3D

Seedance 2.0

Feb 12, 2026

ByteDance's Next-Gen Video Model with Native Audio-Video Joint Generation

Image-to-VideoText-to-Video

Krea

Feb 5, 2026

Creative image workflows (and some video features)

Image-to-Image Freemium

PixVerse

Feb 5, 2026

Text/image-to-video with effects, transitions & swaps

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video Freemium

Vidu Q2

Feb 5, 2026

Shengshu's advanced image-to-video with better control

Image-to-Video

Viggle

Feb 5, 2026

Character motion and meme-style video creation

Image-to-Video

GPT-Image 1.5

Feb 5, 2026

OpenAI's high-fidelity image generation

Text-to-Image Paid

Meshy AI

Feb 5, 2026

Generate and refine 3D assets from text or images

Text-to-3DImage-to-3D Freemium

Flux 2 Flex

Feb 5, 2026

Fine-tuned control with adjustable inference

Text-to-Image

Recraft

Feb 5, 2026

Design-forward image generation (logos, vectors, assets)

Image-to-Image Freemium

Flux Kontext

Feb 5, 2026

Context-aware image generation and editing

Text-to-ImageImage-to-Image

Stable Diffusion 3.5

Feb 5, 2026

Open-source image generation with flexibility

Text-to-Image Free

Magnific

Feb 5, 2026

AI upscaling and enhancement for images

Image-to-Image Paid

Wan 2.6 Image-to-Image

Feb 5, 2026

Latest Wan for image variations and editing

Image-to-Image

Black Forest Labs

Feb 5, 2026

FLUX image model family (provider site)

Image-to-Image

BRIA Eraser

Feb 5, 2026

High-fidelity object removal from images

Image-to-Image

Chatterbox Turbo

Feb 5, 2026

Ultra-fast text-to-speech for real-time voice AI

Text-to-Audio

Microsoft TRELLIS

Feb 5, 2026

Microsoft's advanced 3D generation from text or images

Text-to-3DImage-to-3D Free

BRIA Video Eraser

Feb 5, 2026

Object removal from video with high fidelity

Video-to-Video

Kaedim

Feb 5, 2026

2D-to-3D conversion for game assets

Image-to-3D

LightX Recamera

Feb 5, 2026

Relight and recamera videos

Video-to-Video

3DFY.ai

Feb 5, 2026

Text-to-3D for product-style assets

Text-to-3D

Runway Gen-3 Alpha

Feb 5, 2026

Advanced video editing and effects

Video-to-Video Freemium

MiniMax Music 2.0

Feb 5, 2026

Advanced AI music generation with high-quality compositions

Text-to-Audio

Stable Audio 2.5

Feb 5, 2026

High-quality music and sound effects generation

Text-to-Audio

Luma AI

Feb 5, 2026

3D capture + creative tools (incl. 3D/Video features)

Image-to-VideoImage-to-3D

ElevenLabs TTS Eleven-v3

Feb 5, 2026

Multilingual text-to-speech with natural voice synthesis

Text-to-Audio

Stable Diffusion

Feb 5, 2026

Open image generation ecosystem (model + tools)

Image-to-Image

Lyria 2

Feb 5, 2026

Google's latest music generation model

Text-to-Audio

Canva

Feb 5, 2026

Design suite with built-in AI generation features

Image-to-Image Freemium

Sonauto v2.2

Feb 5, 2026

CD-quality music with superior vocals

Text-to-Audio

Descript

Feb 5, 2026

Audio/video editing with AI features

Text-to-AudioText-to-Video Freemium

ElevenLabs Sound Effects v2

Feb 5, 2026

Advanced sound effects generation

Text-to-Audio

Flux 1 [schnell]

Feb 5, 2026

Fast Flux variant for rapid image generation

Text-to-Image

Imagen 3

Feb 5, 2026

Google's high-quality text-to-image model

Text-to-Image

Recraft V3

Feb 5, 2026

Vector art and brand-style image generation

Text-to-Image

Ideogram V3

Feb 5, 2026

Exceptional typography and text rendering

Text-to-Image

Topaz Photo AI

Feb 5, 2026

Image enhancement (denoise/sharpen/upscale)

Image-to-Image Paid

Flux 1 [dev]

Feb 5, 2026

Development Flux for advanced control

Text-to-Image

Spline

Feb 5, 2026

3D design tool (with AI features depending on product)

Text-to-3DImage-to-3D Freemium

Ovis Image

Feb 5, 2026

Quick text rendering for marketing graphics

Text-to-Image

LongCat Image

Feb 5, 2026

Multilingual text rendering and photorealism

Text-to-Image

Bagel

Feb 5, 2026

7B multimodal model for text and images

Text-to-ImageImage-to-Image

Flux Realism LoRA

Feb 5, 2026

Photorealistic Flux with LoRA fine-tuning

Text-to-Image

Flux LoRA

Feb 5, 2026

Customizable Flux with LoRA fine-tuning

Text-to-Image

MiniMax TTS

Feb 5, 2026

Multilingual text-to-speech with streaming

Text-to-Audio

Shap-E

Feb 5, 2026

OpenAI's conditional 3D model generation

Text-to-3DImage-to-3D Free

Point-E

Feb 5, 2026

OpenAI's fast point cloud generation

Text-to-3D Free

DreamFusion

Feb 5, 2026

Text-to-3D via NeRF with score distillation

Text-to-3D Free

Get3D

Feb 5, 2026

NVIDIA's high-quality 3D mesh generation

Text-to-3DImage-to-3D Free

Topaz Video Enhance AI

Feb 5, 2026

Professional video upscaling and enhancement

Video-to-Video Paid

CapCut

Feb 5, 2026

AI-powered video editing with enhancement features

Video-to-Video Freemium

Zero-1-to-3

Feb 5, 2026

View-consistent image-to-3D generation

Image-to-3D Free

Instant3D

Feb 5, 2026

Fast single-image 3D generation

Image-to-3D Free

Qwen3-Coder-Next

Feb 6, 2026

80B parameter open-weight coding powerhouse

LLMCoding Free

GPT-5.3 Codex

Feb 6, 2026

The frontier model for complex reasoning and software architecture

LLMMultimodal Paid

Claude 4.6 Sonnet

Feb 6, 2026

The industry standard for coding and nuanced instruction following

LLMCoding Paid

Runway Gen-4.5

Feb 6, 2026

The industry standard for cinematic AI video generation

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video Paid

Gemini 3 Ultra

Feb 5, 2026

Native multimodal intelligence with a 10M context window

LLMMultimodal Paid

Perplexity AI

Feb 5, 2026

The conversational search engine that replaced traditional search

LLM Freemium

Consensus

Feb 5, 2026

AI search engine for peer-reviewed scientific research

LLM Freemium

Tripo AI v3

Feb 5, 2026

Instant high-quality 3D modeling from text and images

Text-to-3DImage-to-3D Freemium

Luma Genie

Feb 5, 2026

High-fidelity 3D asset generation from Luma Labs

Text-to-3D Freemium

Luma Dream Machine v2

Feb 5, 2026

High-speed, high-realism video generation

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video Freemium

FLUX.1 [pro]

Feb 5, 2026

The new gold standard for prompt adherence and text rendering

Text-to-ImageImage-to-Image Paid

Pika 2.0

Feb 5, 2026

The creative suite for physics-defying video effects

Text-to-VideoImage-to-Video Freemium

Meshy AI v3

Feb 5, 2026

Production-ready 3D assets in under 60 seconds

Text-to-3DImage-to-3D Freemium

SAM3D v2

Feb 5, 2026

Meta's Segment Anything 3D for high-fidelity reconstruction

Image-to-3D Free

January 2026 (13)