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AI model releases 2026
Every AI model launch, preview and reported plan from our reporting, newest first, with prices and the sourced story behind each entry. Updated with every edition.
Prices and claims are what each story reports; a company’s own benchmark stays a company claim. The claim check compares each maker’s main claim with an independent test that our story cites. Released models so far: 13 backed, 13 mixed, 15 not checked yet.
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November 2026
Moonshot published the full weights on Hugging Face, as it promised, under its own licence. Businesses selling model access with over $20 million in yearly revenue need a separate deal.
Claim check: MixedArtificial Analysis puts it first on Terminal-Bench 4.0, at 67%, which backs Moonshot’s coding claim. But it scores 46 overall on Index v5, the highest for an open model and 12 points behind Claude Opus 5.5.
Kimi K3.1 Pro’s weights are out, and Tencent launches Hy4
October 2026
Moonshot’s new flagship, with a 1-million-token context and a faster Highspeed version, in Kimi’s apps and API. Moonshot says it nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on a coding test and promises the weights by November 4.
Claim check: MixedArtificial Analysis scores it 55, fourth of 215 models, but found it slower than average and very wordy, and lists it as proprietary until the weights are out.
Price $2 / $10 per million input / output tokens
Moonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro, open weights due Nov 4
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