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New AI model releases: the last 30 days

What arrived, what got measured, and who is due. Rebuilt once a day from the day’s data.

As of 21 Oct 2026, 16 new models arrived this week: MiniMax-M3.1-Flash (MiniMax, 19 Oct), Mercury 3 (Inception, 19 Oct), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek, 17 Oct), Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 (NVIDIA, 17 Oct) and more.

Data as of 21 Oct 2026

New this week

ModelReleasedIndexRankPrice $/MStatus
MiniMax-M3.1-FlashMiniMax19 Oct 202661.9#92$0.262Ranked
Mercury 3Inception19 Oct 2026––$0.163Released; awaiting independent results
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017maxDeepSeek17 Oct 202663.1#72$0.525Ranked
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4NVIDIAseen 17 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
Beam 1.0 501B A23BReflection5 Oct 2026––$0.600First results arriving
Seed2 1 ProByteDanceseen 17 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
Salesforce Launa Omni 1Salesforceseen 17 Oct 2026–––Listed; awaiting independent results
Beam 1.0Reflection16 Oct 202654.6#246$1.05Ranked
GLM-LegalmaxZhipu AIseen 16 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
Muse Spark OpenxhighMeta15 Oct 202661.2#100$2.00Ranked
Muse Spark Open 816B A42BxhighMeta15 Oct 202658.6#152$2.00Ranked
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9BNVIDIA15 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA15 Oct 2026––$0.315First results arriving
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12BNVIDIA15 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
Musespark 1.3Metaseen 14 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
LFM2.5-24B-A2BLiquid AIseen 14 Oct 2026––$0.213Listed; awaiting independent results

Released in the last 30 days

Every model released, or first listed with no release date, in the 30 days to 21 Oct 2026, newest first.

ModelProviderDateIndexRankResults
Aya Vision 32BCoherelisted 20 Oct 2026––2
MiniMax-M3.1-FlashMiniMax19 Oct 202661.9#927
Mercury 3Inception19 Oct 2026––0
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek17 Oct 202663.1#725
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4NVIDIAlisted 17 Oct 2026––3
Seed2 1 ProByteDancelisted 17 Oct 2026––1
Salesforce Launa Omni 1Salesforcelisted 17 Oct 2026––0
Beam 1.0Reflection16 Oct 202654.6#2468
GLM-LegalZhipu AIlisted 16 Oct 2026––1
Muse Spark OpenMeta15 Oct 202661.2#1005
Muse Spark Open 816B A42BMeta15 Oct 202658.6#1526
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9BNVIDIA15 Oct 2026––4
Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA15 Oct 2026––4
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12BNVIDIA15 Oct 2026––2
Musespark 1.3Metalisted 14 Oct 2026––1
LFM2.5-24B-A2BLiquid AIlisted 14 Oct 2026––0
Muse Wonder FullMeta12 Oct 202670.7#37
Muse WonderMeta12 Oct 202667.5#2314
Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic7 Oct 202661.5#968
Mistral Large 4Mistral AI6 Oct 202656.8#19318
Nano Banana 2.1Google6 Oct 2026––0
Beam 1.0 501B A23BReflection5 Oct 2026––2
Ling 3.1 FlashAnt Group1 Oct 2026––4
Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle30 Sept 202671.0#221
GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI29 Sept 202670.0#724
Claude Opus 5.5 RangeAnthropiclisted 29 Sept 2026––0
Claude Sonnet 5 RangeAnthropiclisted 29 Sept 2026––0
Mercury VoiceInception29 Sept 2026––0
Resonant 1Unknownlisted 29 Sept 2026––0
Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic28 Sept 202669.5#914
Grok 3 Mini FastSpaceXAIlisted 27 Sept 202653.7#2758
GLM 5.3 PrimeZhipu AIlisted 24 Sept 2026––0
Qwen3.8 Max PrimeAlibabalisted 24 Sept 2026––0
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic22 Sept 202672.7#121
GPT-6 SolOpenAI22 Sept 202666.6#3029
GPT-6 LunaOpenAI22 Sept 202660.1#11629
Solar Mini 4Upstage22 Sept 2026––4
GPT-6 Luna ProOpenAI22 Sept 2026––0
GPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, max)OpenAI22 Sept 2026––0
GPT-6 Sol ProOpenAI22 Sept 2026––0
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi21 Sept 202664.2#5420
Grok 4.7SpaceXAI21 Sept 202664.0#568
MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi21 Sept 202659.8#12116
Gemini Deep Research AgentGooglelisted 21 Sept 2026––0
o3 Deep ResearchOpenAIlisted 21 Sept 2026––0
o4 mini Deep ResearchOpenAIlisted 21 Sept 2026––0

Who is due

Expected windows from each provider’s release cadence over the last two years. An estimate from dates only, not from announcements.

ProviderLast releaseCadenceExpected window
Microsoft30 Apr 2025every 62 days6 Jun 2025 to 25 Jul 2025overdue
Ai212 Dec 2025every 21 days24 Dec 2025 to 10 Jan 2026overdue
Amazon2 Dec 2025every 148 days28 Feb 2026 to 27 Jun 2026overdue
AI21 Labs8 Jan 2026every 92 days4 Mar 2026 to 16 May 2026overdue
ByteDance14 Feb 2026every 83 days4 Apr 2026 to 10 Jun 2026overdue
Nous Research30 Jan 2026every 156 days3 May 2026 to 5 Sept 2026overdue
China Mobile9 Jul 2026every 56 days11 Aug 2026 to 25 Sept 2026overdue
Moonshot AI16 Jul 2026every 55 days18 Aug 2026 to 1 Oct 2026overdue
Poolside21 Jul 2026every 65 days29 Aug 2026 to 20 Oct 2026overdue
Liquid AI4 Aug 2026every 68 days13 Sept 2026 to 7 Nov 2026
Alibaba17 Sept 2026every 7 days21 Sept 2026 to 26 Sept 2026overdue
Zhipu AI18 Sept 2026every 28 days4 Oct 2026 to 27 Oct 2026
Xiaomi21 Sept 2026every 26 days6 Oct 2026 to 27 Oct 2026
OpenAI29 Sept 2026every 22 days12 Oct 2026 to 29 Oct 2026
Ant Group1 Oct 2026every 19 days12 Oct 2026 to 27 Oct 2026
Google6 Oct 2026every 15 days15 Oct 2026 to 27 Oct 2026
SpaceXAI21 Sept 2026every 41 days15 Oct 2026 to 17 Nov 2026
Upstage22 Sept 2026every 41 days16 Oct 2026 to 18 Nov 2026
Anthropic7 Oct 2026every 24 days21 Oct 2026 to 9 Nov 2026
Mistral AI6 Oct 2026every 28 days22 Oct 2026 to 14 Nov 2026
Cohere9 Sept 2026every 76 days24 Oct 2026 to 24 Dec 2026
LG AI Research12 Aug 2026every 125 days26 Oct 2026 to 3 Feb 2027
IBM25 Aug 2026every 118 days3 Nov 2026 to 6 Feb 2027
NVIDIA15 Oct 2026every 36 days5 Nov 2026 to 4 Dec 2026
Meta15 Oct 2026every 40 days8 Nov 2026 to 10 Dec 2026
DeepSeek17 Oct 2026every 37 days8 Nov 2026 to 7 Dec 2026
OpenBMB7 Sept 2026every 105 days9 Nov 2026 to 1 Feb 2027
Inception19 Oct 2026every 38 days10 Nov 2026 to 11 Dec 2026
MiniMax19 Oct 2026every 57 days22 Nov 2026 to 6 Jan 2027
StepFun18 Sept 2026every 112 days24 Nov 2026 to 21 Feb 2027

First results this week

Benchmarks that published a first score for a model in the last seven days.