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Model Releases

A dated record of frontier and open-weight model releases — who shipped what, when, under which licence, from which lab and country. The log, not a leaderboard; weighted to open-weight and Chinese releases.

Updated 6 Oct 2026 · Links open our coverage; primaries are cited there
Headline Company DateCoverage
Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2221 identifies five European Defence Projects of Common Interest under Regulation (EU) 2025/2643 — 1 Oct 2026 Read More →
Huawei rebrands XMAGE as 华为睿影 XMAGE and ties Mate 90 Pro Max 典藏版 and Mate 90 RS 非凡大师 to Kirin 9050 Pro, with a lab claim of 37% and 62% imaging gains Huawei 1 Oct 2026 Read More →
Huawei Lists Mate 90 Series Sale at 12:08 on 1 October 2026, From 5,999 Yuan Huawei 1 Oct 2026 Read More →
Xi ties innovation-driven growth to a sound start for the 15th Five-Year Plan — 1 Oct 2026 Read More →
DeepSeek’s GitHub list puts a plugin harness ahead of its model repos DeepSeek 1 Oct 2026 Read More →
TileLang 0.1.15 adds a Huawei Ascend 950 backend for Python kernel code DeepSeek 1 Oct 2026 Read More →
DeepSeek releases DeepSelect, a TopK kernel for sparse attention and sampling DeepSeek 1 Oct 2026 Read More →
DeepSeek ships Ascend 950 attention kernels and drops Hopper from FlashMLA DeepSeek 1 Oct 2026 Read More →
DeepSeek adds Huawei Ascend backend to TileKernels — 30 Sep 2026 Read More →
CNNIC launches ATI, an AI agent identity layer built on DNS and PKI — 30 Sep 2026 Read More →
DeepSeek Releases DeepEP-Ascend for Huawei Ascend 950 MoE Training — 30 Sep 2026 Read More →
DeepSeek Releases DeepGEMM-Ascend Kernel Library for Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs — 30 Sep 2026 Read More →
Cohere launches Embed 5 embedding models Cohere 30 Sep 2026 Read More →
Musk: SpaceX aiming for Fable- and GPT-6-level model in two to three months — 24 Sep 2026 Read More →
Palantir Adds OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to AIP — 24 Sep 2026 Read More →
Palantir adds xAI’s Grok 4.7 to AIP — 24 Sep 2026 Read More →
Google starts rolling new Connected Apps into Gemini — 23 Sep 2026 Read More →
OpenAI Launches Independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI After Internal Model Resolves Navier–Stokes and 100+ Open Problems OpenAI 21 Sep 2026 Read More →
xAI Ships Grok 4.7: Longer-Horizon Coding Model at $2/$6 with New Safeguard Stack OpenAI 21 Sep 2026 Read More →
Lightspeed Launches AI Command Center™ — Conversational AI Built Into Dealer Management System — 18 Aug 2026 Read More →
Stratus Launches Stratus Labs AI Arm and Debuts Agentic Spooling Tools at Innovate 2026 — 18 Aug 2026 Read More →
Anthropic Makes Auto Mode the Default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team Plans — 14 Aug 2026 Read More →
Google Cloud Bolsters Oracle Integration with GA Cloning for Autonomous AI Databases — 16 Jul 2026 Read More →
Windows Insider Announces New Builds for July 6, 2026 Microsoft 7 Jul 2026 Read More →
xAI Makes Grok Build Available in Railway Sandboxes — 2 Jul 2026 Read More →
Microsoft Launches Frontier Company with $2.5B Investment and 6,000 Embedded Experts Microsoft 2 Jul 2026 Read More →
NSA, DEVCOM Army Research Office Launch QuantumEAGLe Initiative — 30 Jun 2026 Read More →
Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite to GA and Gemini Omni Flash to Public Preview — 30 Jun 2026 Read More →
Booz Allen Hamilton, OpenAI Announce Partnership for Mission-Ready AI Deployment OpenAI 29 Jun 2026 Read More →
Google Workspace Weekly Recap (June 26, 2026): Incremental Exports, Group Security, and Classroom Read-Along Headline Meaningful Updates Google 27 Jun 2026 Read More →
Microsoft Marketplace Floods with 275 New Offers (June 26, 2026): AI, Compliance, and Industry Solutions Dominate Microsoft 27 Jun 2026 Read More →
BCG: Agentic AI Shifts Transformation from Central Programs to Team-Led Workflow Redesign BCG 19 Jun 2026 Read More →
Google Workspace Adds Gemini Classroom Integration, Longer Veo Videos, Enhanced AI Avatars, and New Admin Chat Controls Gemini 18 Jun 2026 Read More →
McKinsey: AI Ad Economy Shifts: 75% of Advertisers Expect Spend Rise Mckinsey 17 Jun 2026 Read More →
AWS Drops Graviton5 EC2 GA, Gemma 4 Bedrock Availability, FinOps Agent Preview, and CLI v1 Maintenance Mode Signals Amazon 15 Jun 2026 Read More →
Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines — 12 Jun 2026 Read More →
ChatGPT’s Codex Adds Rate Limit Banking and Developer Mode OpenAI 12 Jun 2026 Read More →
xAI Launches Grok Build Plugin Marketplace xAI 11 Jun 2026 Read More →
SKY Co., Ltd. has deployed HPE Private Cloud AI to accelerate secure AI development. — 10 Jun 2026 Read More →