Snapshot / 2026
It's been 3 days since the last model dropped — P-Image-Try-On · Pruna AI
models tracked
2026 so far
Current-year run rate
Jan–Jun: 300 releases vs 223 in the same window in 2025 (+34.5% vs that window). At this month-by-month pace, full-year projection is ~ 631.6 vs 473 for all of 2025 (+33.5% vs full prior year).
Latest Releases
Most recent model releases in the dataset
Top Labs
Releases per lab and mean days between consecutive releases
Modality Breakdown
Models per modality; % is share of all releases
AI2
went silent: Feb 15, 2018
came back: Jun 7, 2023
ELMo → Tülu 1
20 releases since return
Dormant Labs
Labs with 2+ releases but silent for 12+ months
+ 7 more dormant labs
Calendar curiosities
Palindrome date
0
no palindrome YYYYMMDD dates in the dataset — hover for detail
Pi day pile
4
releases on Mar 14
Leap day
1
releases on Feb 29 — rare; hover for detail
Repeating digit day
36
releases when month equals day (1/1 … 12/12) — click to show releases
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
429
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 (1252 total).
2 → 17.4 avg/yr·2017–2021 vs 2022–2026
Liquid AI
17 releases in last 12 mo·avg 2/yr before
2025
models in a single year — the all-time dataset record
70
releases that month
Apr 2026
23
releases that week
May 31, 2026 — Jun 6, 2026
11.5
mean releases per calendar month
across full dataset span
904
releases on days with 2+ models
busiest single day: 8 models · Jun 16, 2026
1
fewest releases among months with activity
Apr 2021
19.7%
of all releases from 3 labs
Google, Alibaba, OpenAI
626 → 1252 models · May 8, 2025 → Jun 18, 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 — Jun 10, 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
Boogu
first tracked release
Jun 16, 2026
97 models · most even modality mix
44 distinct months with a release
Alibaba
57 open-source releases
78 closed-source releases
Q2
405 releases (all years)
avg 313/quarter
Spring
391 releases · 31.2%
Mar–May
Tuesday
228 releases · 24.6%
last 24 months