Every big AI launch · Jan 2023 to Nov 2026 · 277 events
There is no safe week off in AI anymore.
In 2023 a big launch landed every 7.8 days. In 2026 it is every 2.9 days, 2.7x faster. The safest week left is week 15 (Apr 9 to Apr 15).
2023
44%
quiet weeks (23 of 52)
2024
40%
quiet weeks (21 of 52)
2025
19%
quiet weeks (10 of 52)
2026
11%
quiet weeks so far (5 of 46)
The calendar
Each square is one week. Darker means more launches. Watch the years fill in.
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Week 45 · Nov 5 to Nov 11
7 launches across 4 years20231 launch
- DevDay: GPT-4 Turbo and GPTs · Nov 6Custom GPTs, 128K context, cheaper tokens
2024nothing big. you could have left.
20251 launch
- Kimi K2 Thinking · Moonshot, Nov 6Open model tops agent benchmarks
20265 launches
- Personal Finance in Claude · Nov 5Read-only bank and card account access via Plaid, US beta
- OpenAI raises $11B at $1.25T · Nov 6First close of new round, smaller than the $30B originally sought
- Nvidia board probes Jensen Huang · NVIDIA, Nov 8Independent inquiry over reported ties to alleged Chinese intelligence asset
- Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 · Nov 9Anthropic's top model, 30% faster and cheaper than Fable 5.1
- Anthropic launches IPO roadshow · Nov 10825M shares at $70 to $78, up to about $1.4T valuation
Take two weeks off. See what you miss.
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launches you'd come back to
off Aug 1 to Aug 14, 2025
- Genie 3 · Aug 5, 2025Playable worlds from a prompt
- gpt-oss · Aug 5, 2025OpenAI's first open weights since GPT-2
- Claude Opus 4.1 · Aug 5, 2025Same day as gpt-oss and Genie 3
- GPT-5 · Aug 7, 2025The launch with the chart crime
The same two weeks off (Aug 1 to Aug 14), every year
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AI is speeding up
Big launches per quarter, by who shipped them. The last bar is a quarter in progress.
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A big launch every…
2023
every 7.8 days
2024
every 6.5 days
2025
every 5.7 days
2026
every 2.9 days
Every launch, on one line
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55 in view · 277 so far
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Book week 15. Or don't blink.