Snapshot / 2026
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models tracked
2026 so far
Current-year run rate
Jan–Nov: 741 releases vs 470 in the same window in 2025 (+57.7% vs that window). At this month-by-month pace, full-year projection is ~ 875 vs 535 for all of 2025 (+63.5% 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
Yearly Release Rankings
Every year ranked by how many models it shipped
AI2
went silent: Feb 15, 2018
came back: Jun 7, 2023
ELMo → Tülu 1
21 releases since return
Dormant Labs
Labs with 2+ releases but silent for 12+ months
Calendar curiosities
Palindrome date
0
no palindrome YYYYMMDD dates in the dataset — hover for detail
Pi day pile
5
releases on Mar 14
Leap day
1
releases on Feb 29 — rare; hover for detail
Repeating digit day
46
releases when month equals day (1/1 … 12/12) — click to show releases
Tens pile
10.8% on 10/20/30 · 89.2% on other dated days — click to show labs on 10/20/30 grouped by count
Prime day
624
releases on prime-number calendar days (2–31) — click to show labs grouped by count
April Fools'
4
releases on Apr 1 — click to show labs grouped by count
Open vs Closed
Percent of all tracked model releases (1803 total).
2.6 → 28.4 avg/yr·2017–2021 vs 2022–2026
Xiaomi
14 releases in last 12 mo·avg 1.1/yr before
2025
models in a single year — the all-time dataset record
135
releases that month
Oct 2026
36
releases that week
Oct 18, 2026 — Oct 24, 2026
15.8
mean releases per calendar month
across full dataset span
1428
releases on days with 2+ models
busiest single day: 14 models · Oct 27, 2026
1
fewest releases among months with activity
Apr 2021
18.9%
of all releases from 3 labs
Google, Alibaba, OpenAI
901 → 1803 models · Sep 25, 2025 → Nov 5, 2026
Days Since Release
Shipping Days
Which weekday top labs tend to ship on
Longest Streak
Longest span from first to latest release for one lab
first → latest release
Jun 12, 2017 — Oct 28, 2026
Longest Drought*
Largest gap between two consecutive releases (any lab), globally
Dec 26, 2022 → Jan 23, 2023
Med-PaLM → 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
Ricursive Intelligence
first tracked release
Nov 4, 2026
155 models · most even modality mix
56 distinct months with a release
Alibaba
63 open-source releases
109 closed-source releases
Q3
495 releases (all years)
avg 450.8/quarter
Fall
520 releases · 28.8%
Sep–Nov
Tuesday
326 releases · 24.6%
last 24 months