Snapshot / 2026
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models tracked
2026 so far
Current-year run rate
Jan–May: 196 releases vs 167 in the same window in 2025 (+17.4% vs that window). At this month-by-month pace, full-year projection is ~ 556.6 vs 426 for all of 2025 (+30.7% vs full prior year).
Latest Releases
Most recent model releases in the dataset
Top Labs
Releases per lab and mean days between consecutive releases
1.6 → 15.4 avg/yr · 2017–2021 vs 2022–2026
Ant Group
16 releases in last 12 mo · avg 2/yr before
Modality Breakdown
Models per modality; % is share of all releases
AI2
went silent: Feb 15, 2018
came back: Jun 7, 2023
ELMo → Tülu 1
18 releases since return
Dormant Labs
Labs with 2+ releases but silent for 12+ months
+ 2 more dormant labs
Calendar curiosities
Palindrome, π day, month/day doubles, leap day — hover for detail. Tens, Prime, April Fools — click to expand labs by count.
Palindrome date
0
no palindrome YYYYMMDD dates in the dataset — hover for detail
Pi day pile
3
releases on Mar 14
Repeating digit day
31
releases when month equals day (1/1 … 12/12)
Leap day
0
releases on Feb 29 — rare; hover for detail
Tens pile
10.7% on 10/20/30 · 89.3% on other dated days — click to show labs on 10/20/30 grouped by count
Prime day
360
releases on prime-number calendar days (2–31) — click to show labs grouped by count
April Fools'
3
releases on Apr 1 — click to show labs grouped by count
Open vs Closed
Percent of all tracked model releases (1054 total).
2025
models in a single year — the all-time dataset record
61
releases that month
Apr 2026
18
releases that week
Mar 15, 2026 — Mar 21, 2026
9.8
mean releases per calendar month
across full dataset span
719
releases on days with 2+ models
busiest single day: 7 models · May 20, 2025
1
fewest releases among months with activity
Apr 2021
21.1%
of all releases from 3 labs
Google, Alibaba, OpenAI
527 → 1054 models · Apr 5, 2025 → May 5, 2026
Days Since Release
Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Alibaba — days since each lab’s latest tracked release
Longest Streak
Longest span from first to latest release for one lab
first → latest release
Jun 12, 2017 — Apr 15, 2026
Longest Drought*
Largest gap between two consecutive releases (any lab), globally
Dec 20, 2022 → Jan 23, 2023
Midjourney Niji 4 → Eleven Monolingual v1
* counted from Nov 30, 2022 (GPT-3.5 release) — the point when modern AI race began
Solo vs Shared Days
Calendar days: one release vs multiple models released
Company Lifespan
Years between earliest and latest release year per lab
Subquadratic
first tracked release
May 5, 2026
85 models · most even modality mix
40 distinct months with a release
Alibaba
54 open-source releases
70 closed-source releases
Q1
304 releases (all years)
avg 263.5/quarter
Spring
326 releases · 30.9%
Mar–May
Thursday
185 releases · 23.1%
last 24 months