AI model launches accelerated: 70 in 2026 by mid-October after 53 in all of 2025, with OpenAI and Qwen setting the pace

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“All major AI Labs model launches and capabilities”

The catalogue covers 123 consequential public foundation-model launches from 16 labs, dated 2025-01-20 through 2026-10-12 (scanned 2026-10-12). It includes flagship, reasoning, coding, multimodal, image, video, audio, robotics, and open-weight model releases, and excludes applications, datasets, chips, and trivial updates — treat the counts as coverage of this researched catalogue, not an exhaustive census of every checkpoint worldwide. Alibaba and Qwen appear as separate labels where sources attribute releases differently.

Launch cadence by lab and month

Each cell is one lab-month; darker means more launches in that month. Numbers show counts of 2+. Hover or tap a cell for the model names; click to filter the table below.

OpenAI leads 2026 with 22 launches, including the GPT-6 Astra frontier release on the scan date itself. openai.com

Qwen alone posted 19 launches in 2025, the largest single-lab year in the catalogue; its parent Alibaba added 11 more under its own label in 2026. alibabacloud.com

September 22, 2026 was the busiest single day: Alibaba unveiled seven Qwen models alongside Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and two OpenAI GPT-6 variants. ioswarm.io

Source coverage varies: 9 of 14 lab-year groups in 2026 rest on a single source host, while OpenAI's 2026 entries draw on four hosts. mistral.ai

All 123 launches

Date	Lab	Model	Capabilities	Access	Context	Source

Method: catalogue of 123 normalized foundation-model launches across 16 lab labels, 2025-01-01 to 2026-10-12, scanned 2026-10-12. Each row is one public model release with lab, date, capabilities, access, context window where stated, and source URL; counts measure catalogue coverage, not an exhaustive global census. Long capability and access text is truncated in the table; hover a heatmap cell for model names. Context windows left blank where sources state none.

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