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How this works

I listed every big AI launch from January 1, 2023 to 14 Nov 2026: 277 events, each with its date and one source. Snapshot taken 14 Nov 2026.

What counts as big

Each event is weighted 1 (notable), 2 (major) or 3 (everyone talked about it). The weight sets the dot size and how dark a week gets on the calendar.

The numbers

2023: 47 launches, one every 7.8 days, 23 quiet weeks out of 52
2024: 56 launches, one every 6.5 days, 21 quiet weeks out of 52
2025: 64 launches, one every 5.7 days, 10 quiet weeks out of 52
2026: 110 launches, one every 2.9 days, 5 quiet weeks out of 46

Honest caveats

More labs ship today than in 2023, and recent news is easier to find, so a list like this leans toward recent years. I kept one bar for every year (would this have been on everyone's timeline that week?), but treat the speed-up as a direction, not a lab measurement. Missing something? Tell me on X: @tibo_maker.

Every launch

  1. Nov 10, 2026Anthropic launches IPO roadshow (Anthropic)
  2. Nov 9, 2026Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (Anthropic)
  3. Nov 8, 2026Nvidia board probes Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)
  4. Nov 6, 2026OpenAI raises $11B at $1.25T (OpenAI)
  5. Nov 5, 2026Personal Finance in Claude (Anthropic)
  6. Oct 28, 2026NY bans unsafe AI companion features for kids (New York)
  7. Oct 28, 2026Gemini 4 Carbon (Google)
  8. Oct 27, 2026Genie 4 (Google)
  9. Oct 26, 2026GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI)
  10. Oct 26, 2026Anthropic files public S-1 for IPO (Anthropic)
  11. Oct 23, 2026Kimi K3.1 Pro (Moonshot)
  12. Oct 22, 2026Meta discloses $825B AI commitments (Meta)
  13. Oct 21, 2026OpenAI models and Codex on Google Cloud (OpenAI)
  14. Oct 21, 2026Claude Duet (Anthropic)
  15. Oct 16, 2026GPT-6 Pro parallel agents (OpenAI)
  16. Oct 15, 2026Kling 4.0 (Kuaishou)
  17. Oct 15, 2026Muse Spark Open (Meta)
  18. Oct 12, 2026Muse Wonder and Wonder Full (Meta)
  19. Oct 7, 2026Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic)
  20. Oct 6, 2026Mistral Large 4 (Mistral)
  21. Sep 30, 2026Gemini 4 Argon (Google)
  22. Sep 29, 2026GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay 2026 (OpenAI)
  23. Sep 28, 2026Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic)
  24. Sep 22, 2026GPT-6 Sol and Luna (OpenAI)
  25. Sep 22, 2026Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)
  26. Sep 21, 2026Grok 4.7 (xAI)
  27. Sep 10, 2026DeepSeek V4.1-Flash (DeepSeek)
  28. Sep 9, 2026iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone Duo and Siri AI (Apple)
  29. Sep 3, 2026NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face (NVIDIA)
  30. Sep 3, 2026GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI)
  31. Sep 2, 2026Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google)
  32. Sep 1, 2026Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 (Anthropic)
  33. Aug 26, 2026Q2 FY27 earnings: $96.2B revenue (NVIDIA)
  34. Aug 13, 2026Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google)
  35. Aug 12, 2026Grok 4.6 (xAI)
  36. Aug 5, 2026Hassabis steps aside, Jeff Dean leaves (Google)
  37. Aug 3, 2026Qwen3.8-Max (Alibaba)
  38. Jul 24, 2026Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic)
  39. Jul 21, 2026Gemini 3.6 Flash (Google)
  40. Jul 16, 2026Kimi K3 (Moonshot)
  41. Jul 9, 2026Muse Spark 1.1 and Meta Model API (Meta)
  42. Jul 9, 2026GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) (OpenAI)
  43. Jul 8, 2026Grok 4.5 (xAI)
  44. Jul 7, 2026Muse Image (Meta)
  45. Jul 6, 2026xAI rebrands as SpaceXAI (xAI)
  46. Jun 30, 2026Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic)
  47. Jun 16, 2026SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (xAI)
  48. Jun 12, 2026US orders Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline (Anthropic)
  49. Jun 12, 2026SpaceX IPO, parent of xAI (xAI)
  50. Jun 9, 2026Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (Anthropic)
  51. Jun 8, 2026Siri AI at WWDC26 (Apple)
  52. Jun 4, 2026Nemotron 3 Ultra (NVIDIA)
  53. Jun 2, 2026Build 2026 and MAI-Thinking-1 (Microsoft)
  54. Jun 2, 2026Trump frontier AI executive order (US Government)
  55. Jun 1, 2026Jensen Huang Computex keynote: RTX Spark (NVIDIA)
  56. May 28, 2026Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic)
  57. May 28, 2026Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation (Anthropic)
  58. May 19, 2026Gemini Spark 24/7 agent (Google)
  59. May 19, 2026Gemini Omni (Google)
  60. May 19, 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O (Google)
  61. May 18, 2026Jury rejects Musk lawsuit against OpenAI (OpenAI)
  62. May 11, 2026OpenAI Deployment Company (OpenAI)
  63. May 7, 2026EU agrees to delay AI Act high-risk rules (EU)
  64. May 6, 2026Anthropic rents xAI Colossus 1 from SpaceX (Anthropic)
  65. Apr 24, 2026DeepSeek V4 preview (DeepSeek)
  66. Apr 23, 2026GPT-5.5 (OpenAI)
  67. Apr 20, 2026Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot)
  68. Apr 20, 2026Tim Cook steps down, John Ternus named CEO (Apple)
  69. Apr 16, 2026Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic)
  70. Apr 8, 2026Muse Spark (Meta)
  71. Apr 7, 2026Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing (Anthropic)
  72. Apr 2, 2026Qwen3.6-Plus (Alibaba)
  73. Mar 31, 2026Claude Code source leak (Anthropic)
  74. Mar 26, 2026Injunction against Pentagon ban (Anthropic)
  75. Mar 26, 2026Claude Mythos leak (Anthropic)
  76. Mar 24, 2026Sora app shut down (OpenAI)
  77. Mar 17, 2026GPT-5.4 mini and nano (OpenAI)
  78. Mar 16, 2026Mistral Small 4 (Mistral)
  79. Mar 16, 2026GTC 2026 keynote (NVIDIA)
  80. Mar 11, 2026Nemotron 3 Super (NVIDIA)
  81. Mar 10, 2026LeCun AMI Labs $1.03B seed (AMI Labs)
  82. Mar 9, 2026Anthropic sues Pentagon (Anthropic)
  83. Mar 5, 2026GPT-5.4 (OpenAI)
  84. Feb 27, 2026OpenAI Pentagon classified deal (OpenAI)
  85. Feb 27, 2026Pentagon labels Anthropic supply chain risk (Anthropic)
  86. Feb 27, 2026$110B funding round (OpenAI)
  87. Feb 26, 2026Nano Banana 2 (Google)
  88. Feb 19, 2026Gemini 3.1 Pro (Google)
  89. Feb 17, 2026Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic)
  90. Feb 16, 2026Qwen3.5 (Alibaba)
  91. Feb 15, 2026OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator (OpenAI)
  92. Feb 12, 2026Gemini 3 Deep Think upgrade (Google)
  93. Feb 12, 2026Seedance 2.0 (ByteDance)
  94. Feb 12, 2026$30B Series G at $380B (Anthropic)
  95. Feb 11, 2026GLM-5 (Zhipu)
  96. Feb 10, 2026xAI cofounder exodus (xAI)
  97. Feb 5, 2026Kling 3.0 (Kuaishou)
  98. Feb 5, 2026GPT-5.3-Codex (OpenAI)
  99. Feb 5, 2026Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic)
  100. Feb 3, 2026SaaSpocalypse selloff (Anthropic)
  101. Feb 2, 2026Codex app for macOS (OpenAI)
  102. Feb 2, 2026SpaceX acquires xAI (xAI)
  103. Jan 28, 2026Moltbook goes viral (Moltbook)
  104. Jan 27, 2026Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot)
  105. Jan 26, 2026Maia 200 chip (Microsoft)
  106. Jan 16, 2026Ads coming to ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  107. Jan 12, 2026Claude Cowork (Anthropic)
  108. Jan 12, 2026Apple picks Gemini for Siri (Apple)
  109. Jan 7, 2026ChatGPT Health (OpenAI)
  110. Jan 5, 2026Vera Rubin in full production (CES) (NVIDIA)
  111. Dec 17, 2025Gemini 3 Flash (Google)
  112. Dec 11, 2025GPT-5.2 (OpenAI)
  113. Dec 11, 2025Disney puts $1B into OpenAI (OpenAI)
  114. Dec 1, 2025DeepSeek-V3.2 (DeepSeek)
  115. Nov 24, 2025Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic)
  116. Nov 20, 2025Nano Banana Pro (Google)
  117. Nov 18, 2025Gemini 3 (Google)
  118. Nov 17, 2025Grok 4.1 (xAI)
  119. Nov 12, 2025GPT-5.1 (OpenAI)
  120. Nov 6, 2025Kimi K2 Thinking (Moonshot)
  121. Oct 29, 2025NVIDIA hits $5 trillion (NVIDIA)
  122. Oct 28, 2025OpenAI recapitalization (OpenAI)
  123. Oct 21, 2025ChatGPT Atlas (OpenAI)
  124. Oct 15, 2025Veo 3.1 (Google)
  125. Oct 15, 2025Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic)
  126. Oct 6, 2025DevDay: apps in ChatGPT and AMD deal (OpenAI)
  127. Sep 30, 2025Sora 2 and the Sora app (OpenAI)
  128. Sep 29, 2025California SB 53 signed (US)
  129. Sep 29, 2025Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic)
  130. Sep 22, 2025NVIDIA to invest up to $100B in OpenAI (NVIDIA)
  131. Sep 15, 2025GPT-5-Codex (OpenAI)
  132. Sep 5, 2025$1.5B authors settlement (Anthropic)
  133. Sep 2, 2025Anthropic raises $13B (Anthropic)
  134. Aug 26, 2025Nano Banana (Google)
  135. Aug 21, 2025DeepSeek-V3.1 (DeepSeek)
  136. Aug 7, 2025GPT-5 (OpenAI)
  137. Aug 5, 2025Claude Opus 4.1 (Anthropic)
  138. Aug 5, 2025gpt-oss (OpenAI)
  139. Aug 5, 2025Genie 3 (Google)
  140. Jul 28, 2025GLM-4.5 by Zhipu (Other)
  141. Jul 23, 2025America's AI Action Plan (US)
  142. Jul 21, 2025Gold at the Math Olympiad (Google)
  143. Jul 17, 2025ChatGPT agent (OpenAI)
  144. Jul 11, 2025Kimi K2 (Moonshot)
  145. Jul 9, 2025Grok 4 (xAI)
  146. Jun 30, 2025Meta Superintelligence Labs (Meta)
  147. Jun 12, 2025Meta puts $14.3B into Scale AI (Meta)
  148. Jun 10, 2025o3-pro and an 80% o3 price cut (OpenAI)
  149. May 22, 2025Claude 4 (Opus and Sonnet) (Anthropic)
  150. May 21, 2025OpenAI buys Jony Ive's io (OpenAI)
  151. May 20, 2025I/O: Veo 3 (Google)
  152. May 16, 2025Codex (OpenAI)
  153. Apr 29, 2025Qwen3 (Alibaba)
  154. Apr 16, 2025o3 and o4-mini (OpenAI)
  155. Apr 14, 2025GPT-4.1 (OpenAI)
  156. Apr 5, 2025Llama 4 (Meta)
  157. Mar 31, 2025OpenAI raises $40B (OpenAI)
  158. Mar 25, 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google)
  159. Mar 25, 2025GPT-4o images (the Ghibli week) (OpenAI)
  160. Mar 12, 2025Gemma 3 (Google)
  161. Mar 6, 2025Manus (Other)
  162. Feb 27, 2025GPT-4.5 (OpenAI)
  163. Feb 24, 2025Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code (Anthropic)
  164. Feb 17, 2025Grok 3 (xAI)
  165. Feb 10, 2025Paris AI Action Summit (Other)
  166. Feb 10, 2025Musk bids $97.4B for OpenAI (OpenAI)
  167. Feb 5, 2025Gemini 2.0 Pro and Flash for all (Google)
  168. Feb 2, 2025Deep Research (OpenAI)
  169. Jan 31, 2025o3-mini (OpenAI)
  170. Jan 27, 2025NVIDIA loses $589B in one day (NVIDIA)
  171. Jan 23, 2025Operator (OpenAI)
  172. Jan 21, 2025Stargate: $500B (OpenAI)
  173. Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1 (DeepSeek)
  174. Jan 7, 2025Project Digits at CES (NVIDIA)
  175. Dec 26, 2024DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek)
  176. Dec 20, 2024o3 announced (OpenAI)
  177. Dec 16, 2024Veo 2 (Google)
  178. Dec 11, 2024Gemini 2.0 (Google)
  179. Dec 9, 2024Sora for everyone (OpenAI)
  180. Dec 5, 2024o1 and ChatGPT Pro (OpenAI)
  181. Dec 3, 2024Amazon Nova (Amazon)
  182. Nov 25, 2024Model Context Protocol (Anthropic)
  183. Nov 20, 2024DeepSeek-R1-Lite preview (DeepSeek)
  184. Oct 31, 2024ChatGPT search (OpenAI)
  185. Oct 22, 2024Computer use and the new 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic)
  186. Oct 9, 2024Nobel Chemistry for AlphaFold (Google)
  187. Oct 8, 2024Nobel Physics goes to Hinton and Hopfield (Other)
  188. Oct 3, 2024Canvas (OpenAI)
  189. Oct 2, 2024OpenAI raises $6.6B (OpenAI)
  190. Sep 29, 2024California SB 1047 vetoed (US)
  191. Sep 25, 2024Llama 3.2 and Orion glasses (Meta)
  192. Sep 25, 2024Mira Murati leaves OpenAI (OpenAI)
  193. Sep 12, 2024o1-preview (OpenAI)
  194. Sep 11, 2024NotebookLM Audio Overviews (Google)
  195. Aug 13, 2024Grok-2 (xAI)
  196. Aug 1, 2024The AI Act enters into force (EU)
  197. Aug 1, 2024Flux.1 by Black Forest Labs (Other)
  198. Jul 25, 2024SearchGPT prototype (OpenAI)
  199. Jul 25, 2024AlphaProof: IMO silver (Google)
  200. Jul 24, 2024Mistral Large 2 (Mistral)
  201. Jul 23, 2024Llama 3.1 405B (Meta)
  202. Jul 18, 2024GPT-4o mini (OpenAI)
  203. Jun 20, 2024Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Artifacts (Anthropic)
  204. Jun 19, 2024Ilya founds Safe Superintelligence (Other)
  205. Jun 17, 2024Runway Gen-3 Alpha (Runway)
  206. Jun 12, 2024Luma Dream Machine (Luma)
  207. Jun 10, 2024Apple Intelligence (Apple)
  208. May 26, 2024xAI raises $6B (xAI)
  209. May 20, 2024Copilot+ PCs (Microsoft)
  210. May 20, 2024Scarlett Johansson and the Sky voice (OpenAI)
  211. May 14, 2024Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI (OpenAI)
  212. May 14, 2024I/O: Veo, Astra, AI Overviews (Google)
  213. May 13, 2024GPT-4o (OpenAI)
  214. Apr 18, 2024Llama 3 (Meta)
  215. Apr 10, 2024Udio (Other)
  216. Mar 19, 2024Microsoft hires Inflection's founders (Microsoft)
  217. Mar 18, 2024Blackwell at GTC (NVIDIA)
  218. Mar 17, 2024Grok-1 open weights (xAI)
  219. Mar 13, 2024EU Parliament adopts the AI Act (EU)
  220. Mar 12, 2024Devin (Cognition)
  221. Mar 4, 2024Claude 3 (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) (Anthropic)
  222. Feb 29, 2024Elon Musk sues OpenAI (OpenAI)
  223. Feb 26, 2024Mistral Large and Microsoft deal (Mistral)
  224. Feb 22, 2024Gemini image generation paused (Google)
  225. Feb 21, 2024Gemma (Google)
  226. Feb 15, 2024Gemini 1.5 Pro (Google)
  227. Feb 15, 2024Sora preview (OpenAI)
  228. Feb 8, 2024Bard becomes Gemini, Gemini Ultra (Google)
  229. Jan 25, 2024GPT-4 Turbo price cut and new embeddings (OpenAI)
  230. Jan 10, 2024GPT Store (OpenAI)
  231. Dec 21, 2023Midjourney v6 (Midjourney)
  232. Dec 8, 2023Mixtral 8x7B (Mistral)
  233. Dec 8, 2023EU AI Act deal (EU)
  234. Dec 6, 2023Gemini 1.0 (Google)
  235. Nov 22, 2023Sam Altman returns (OpenAI)
  236. Nov 21, 2023Claude 2.1 (Anthropic)
  237. Nov 17, 2023Sam Altman fired (OpenAI)
  238. Nov 6, 2023DevDay: GPT-4 Turbo and GPTs (OpenAI)
  239. Nov 4, 2023Grok announced (xAI)
  240. Nov 1, 2023Bletchley AI Safety Summit (UK)
  241. Oct 30, 2023Biden AI executive order (US)
  242. Sep 27, 2023Meta AI assistant and Ray-Ban glasses (Meta)
  243. Sep 27, 2023Mistral 7B (Mistral)
  244. Sep 25, 2023ChatGPT can see, hear and speak (OpenAI)
  245. Sep 25, 2023Amazon invests up to $4B in Anthropic (Anthropic)
  246. Sep 20, 2023DALL-E 3 (OpenAI)
  247. Aug 28, 2023ChatGPT Enterprise (OpenAI)
  248. Aug 24, 2023Code Llama (Meta)
  249. Jul 21, 2023White House voluntary AI commitments (US)
  250. Jul 18, 2023Llama 2 (Meta)
  251. Jul 12, 2023xAI founded (xAI)
  252. Jul 11, 2023Claude 2 (Anthropic)
  253. Jul 6, 2023Code Interpreter (OpenAI)
  254. Jun 14, 2023EU Parliament votes the AI Act text (EU)
  255. Jun 13, 2023Function calling (OpenAI)
  256. May 30, 2023NVIDIA hits $1 trillion (NVIDIA)
  257. May 23, 2023Photoshop Generative Fill (Adobe)
  258. May 18, 2023ChatGPT iOS app (OpenAI)
  259. May 16, 2023Sam Altman testifies to the Senate (OpenAI)
  260. May 11, 2023Claude 100K context (Anthropic)
  261. May 10, 2023PaLM 2 at I/O (Google)
  262. May 1, 2023Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google (Google)
  263. Apr 20, 2023Google DeepMind formed (Google)
  264. Apr 5, 2023Segment Anything (Meta)
  265. Mar 29, 2023Pause Giant AI Experiments letter (Other)
  266. Mar 23, 2023ChatGPT plugins (OpenAI)
  267. Mar 21, 2023Adobe Firefly (Adobe)
  268. Mar 16, 2023Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft)
  269. Mar 15, 2023Midjourney v5 (Midjourney)
  270. Mar 14, 2023Claude (Anthropic)
  271. Mar 14, 2023GPT-4 (OpenAI)
  272. Mar 1, 2023ChatGPT API (OpenAI)
  273. Feb 24, 2023LLaMA (Meta)
  274. Feb 7, 2023New Bing with GPT-4 inside (Microsoft)
  275. Feb 6, 2023Bard announced (Google)
  276. Feb 1, 2023ChatGPT Plus (OpenAI)
  277. Jan 23, 2023Microsoft puts $10B into OpenAI (Microsoft)

Colors: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, China labs, Everyone else. Made by @tibo_maker.