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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 25 Oct 2026, 9 new models arrived this week: Kimi K3.1 Pro (Moonshot AI, 23 Oct), Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB (NVIDIA, 23 Oct), Nemotron Super VL 3.5 NVFP4 (NVIDIA, 23 Oct), Smaug Nemotron 3.5 NVFP4 (NVIDIA, 23 Oct) and more.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026

New this week

ModelReleasedIndexRankPrice $/MStatus
Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AI23 Oct 202666.9#28$4.00Ranked
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GBthinkingNVIDIA23 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
Nemotron Super VL 3.5 NVFP4NVIDIAseen 23 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
Smaug Nemotron 3.5 NVFP4NVIDIAseen 23 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
Spark X2.6Synlanseen 23 Oct 2026–––First results arriving
Kimi K3.1 Pro HighspeedMoonshot AI23 Oct 2026––$8.00Released; awaiting independent results
GPT-5.6 Sol KeenablemaxOpenAIseen 21 Oct 2026–––Listed; awaiting independent results
MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax19 Oct 202661.9#92$0.262Ranked
Mercury 3highInception19 Oct 2026––$0.163Released; awaiting independent results

Released in the last 30 days

Every model released, or first listed with no release date, in the 30 days to 25 Oct 2026, newest first.

ModelProviderDateIndexRankResults
Lfm 2.5 2 6BLiquid AIlisted 25 Oct 2026––0
Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AI23 Oct 202666.9#289
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GBNVIDIA23 Oct 2026––1
Nemotron Super VL 3.5 NVFP4NVIDIAlisted 23 Oct 2026––1
Smaug Nemotron 3.5 NVFP4NVIDIAlisted 23 Oct 2026––1
Spark X2.6Synlanlisted 23 Oct 2026––1
Kimi K3.1 Pro HighspeedMoonshot AI23 Oct 2026––0
GPT-5.6 Sol KeenableOpenAIlisted 21 Oct 2026––0
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 202664.0#5816
Seed2.1 ProByteDancelisted 17 Oct 2026––1
Salesforce Launa Omni 1Salesforcelisted 17 Oct 2026––0
GLM-LegalZhipu AIlisted 16 Oct 2026––1
Muse Spark OpenMeta15 Oct 202662.0#907
Muse Spark Open 816B A42BMeta15 Oct 202658.6#1506
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12BNVIDIA15 Oct 202650.4#3737
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9BNVIDIA15 Oct 2026––4
Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA15 Oct 2026––4
LFM2.5-24B-A2BLiquid AIlisted 14 Oct 2026––0
Muse Wonder FullMeta12 Oct 202670.6#37
Muse WonderMeta12 Oct 202667.5#2215
Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic7 Oct 202661.5#958
Mistral Large 4Mistral AI6 Oct 202656.7#19618
Nano Banana 2.1Google6 Oct 2026––0
Beam 1.0 501B A23BReflection5 Oct 202654.9#2416
Beam 1.0Reflection5 Oct 202651.2#3509
Ling 3.1 FlashAnt Group1 Oct 2026––4
Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle30 Sept 202670.7#221
GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI29 Sept 202669.9#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 202669.4#1015
Grok 3 Mini FastSpaceXAIlisted 27 Sept 202653.7#2778

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 112 days17 Feb 2026 to 17 May 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
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
Mistral AI6 Oct 2026every 28 days22 Oct 2026 to 14 Nov 2026
StepFun18 Sept 2026every 59 days23 Oct 2026 to 9 Dec 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
Anthropic7 Oct 2026every 39 days30 Oct 2026 to 30 Nov 2026
IBM25 Aug 2026every 118 days3 Nov 2026 to 6 Feb 2027
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
NVIDIA23 Oct 2026every 36 days13 Nov 2026 to 12 Dec 2026
MiniMax19 Oct 2026every 57 days22 Nov 2026 to 6 Jan 2027
Moonshot AI23 Oct 2026every 56 days25 Nov 2026 to 9 Jan 2027

First results this week

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

Questions people ask

What AI models were released this week?
In the seven days to 25 Oct 2026: Kimi K3.1 Pro (Moonshot AI, 23 Oct 2026), Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB (NVIDIA, 23 Oct 2026), Nemotron Super VL 3.5 NVFP4 (NVIDIA, 23 Oct 2026), Smaug Nemotron 3.5 NVFP4 (NVIDIA, 23 Oct 2026), Spark X2.6 (Synlan, 23 Oct 2026), Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed (Moonshot AI, 23 Oct 2026), GPT-5.6 Sol Keenable (OpenAI, 21 Oct 2026) and MiniMax M3.1 Flash (MiniMax, 19 Oct 2026), and 1 more.
What new AI models came out today?
No new releases in today's data run (25 Oct 2026); the latest was Lfm 2.5 2 6B on 25 Oct 2026.
What is the best new AI model this month?
Of the models released in the 30 days to 25 Oct 2026, Gemini 4 Argon (high effort) by Google ranks highest, at 70.7 on the BenchLeader Index (top 10 overall).
Why does a new model have no score yet?
The BenchLeader Index needs at least five independent results across at least two categories, and scores from a model's own launch post are never used. A new model is listed straight away and ranked once independent publishers have measured it, usually within days to weeks.
Which AI labs are due to release next?
Going by release cadence alone, not announcements: Liquid AI (between 13 Sept 2026 and 7 Nov 2026), Zhipu AI (between 4 Oct 2026 and 27 Oct 2026) and Xiaomi (between 6 Oct 2026 and 27 Oct 2026). The table below has every lab.