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New AI Models — October 2026

Every model release from our AI news in October 2026, newest first.

Model changes only: new models, open weights, API access, first platform listings and leaderboard ranks. No product features, pricing or single benchmark scores.

89 releasesLast updated: October 31, 2026

  1. QwenAlibabaPlatform
    Apple Intelligence gets a China date, with Qwen handling Siri's complex tasksQwen timeline →
  2. Mistral Large 4Mistral AIOpen weights
    Mistral opens Large 4 weights: about 1T parameters, 52B active
  3. GrokxAIPlatform
    Tesla Robotaxi runs until 2 a.m. and adds Grok to Model YGrok timeline →
  4. Open-H3-Regenerate-2KNVIDIAOpen weights
    Nvidia team opens a 4K video regeneration stack built on MiniMax H3
  5. IBM Granite Switch 4.1.1IBMNew model
    IBM Granite Switch 4.1.1 patch updates speech recognition and the Decision adapter
  6. Gemini 4 CarbonGoogleNew model
    Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with restricted cyber accessGemini timeline →
  7. DeepSeek V4.1-FlashDeepSeekLeaderboard
    DeepSeek V5 placeholder IDs appear in Harness test codeDeepSeek timeline →
  8. Apex-35B-V1.0Apex IntelligenceNew model
    Apex-35B-V1.0 builds on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with help from AI research agents
  9. Nemotron 3.5 TranscribeNVIDIANew model
    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and opens the Granary v2 data pipeline
  10. Kimi 3.1 ProMoonshot AIPlatform
    Doubao Work opens Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to enterprisesKimi timeline →
  11. GLM 5.3Zhipu AIPlatform
    Doubao Work opens Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to enterprisesGLM timeline →
  12. DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekPlatform
    Doubao Work opens Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to enterprisesDeepSeek timeline →
  13. Ling-3.1-flash-1019Ant GroupOpen weights
    Ant Group's Bailing open-sources Ling-3.1-flash-1019, scoring 44 on the Intelligence Index
  14. Genie 4GoogleNew model
    Genie 4 world model generates sound and character dialogue for the first time
  15. GPT-6 AstraOpenAILeaderboard
    GPT-6 Astra ranks first on Retell's voice agent benchmarkOpenAI timeline →
  16. LFM3Liquid AIOpen weights
    Liquid AI releases LFM3: six open-weight 2B-class multimodal models
  17. GPT-6.1 TerraOpenAINew model
    GPT-6.1 Terra launches for computer use at half the standard API priceOpenAI timeline →
  18. SparkAudio 1.0iFlytekNew model
    iFLYTEK details SparkAudio 1.0, a 30B-A3B speech model trained on domestic chips
  19. Raon-1 miniKRAFTONOpen weights
    KRAFTON previews Raon-1 mini: a 30B-A4B open model under Apache 2.0
  20. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GBNVIDIAOpen weights
    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, a small open model that runs in about 4GB of VRAM
  21. Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AIPlatform
    Kimi K3.1 Pro rolls out in Kimi Code, with a faster Highspeed tierKimi timeline →
  22. DessaBlockNew model
    Block unveils Dessa, a model trained from scratch on human conversation
  23. Kimi K3Moonshot AIPlatform
    GitLab 19.4 adds hosted Kimi K3, MiniMax M3 and GLM 5.3Kimi timeline →
  24. MiniMax M3MiniMaxPlatform
    GitLab 19.4 adds hosted Kimi K3, MiniMax M3 and GLM 5.3MiniMax timeline →
  25. GLM 5.3Zhipu AIPlatform
    GitLab 19.4 adds hosted Kimi K3, MiniMax M3 and GLM 5.3GLM timeline →
  26. M3.1 FlashMiniMaxOpen weights
    MiniMax opens M3.1 Flash weights, with day-0 vLLM support
  27. Granite Speech 5.0 2BIBMNew model
    IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B, #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard
  28. Granite Speech 5.0 2BIBMLeaderboard
    IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B, #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard
  29. Kumo RelationalNVIDIANew model
    NVIDIA Kumo Relational beats supervised ML on 41 relational tasks with no training
  30. Voxtral 3Mistral AINew model
    Mistral ships Voxtral 3: transcription, TTS and a voice agent SDK
  31. Eleven RealtimeElevenLabsNew model
    ElevenLabs' Eleven Realtime scores 98.8% on Big Bench Audio at 0.57s
  32. Laplace 3Bi14New model
    i14 trains linear-attention Laplace 3B on Trainium2 with a fixed 29.5 MB state
  33. EdenLiveVASTOpen weights
    VAST open-sources EdenLive, a real-time world model that runs 720P at 24+ FPS on one RTX 5090
  34. Mercury 3InceptionNew model
    Mercury 3 diffusion LLM hits 1,068 tok/s and leads Haiku 5.5 on 8 of 12 self-reported tests
  35. MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiPlatform
    Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro launches on WorkBuddy
  36. DeepSeek V4.1-FlashDeepSeekLeaderboard
    DeepSeek V4.1-Flash update tops Arena's open agent rankingsDeepSeek timeline →
  37. MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMaxNew model
    MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash: 428B parameters, Intelligence Index 42MiniMax timeline →
  38. Kling 4.0KuaishouNew model
    Kling 4.0 generates 30-second clips and reads 8,000-token prompts
  39. HybridAgentTogether AIOpen weights
    togethercomputer open-sources HybridAgent, which reasons in latent space and acts through text
  40. StartLux-Decision-v1.1-27B InstantStartLuxLeaderboard
    StartLux-Decision-v1.1-27B Instant tops Decision Index 0.3.2
  41. REKIKyutaiOpen weights
    Kyutai releases REKI, a 2.4B robot VLA pretrained only on public data
  42. GLM-LegalZhipu AILeaderboard
    Zhipu's GLM-Legal leads the open-weight rankings on two Vals AI legal benchmarksGLM timeline →
  43. DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017DeepSeekOpen weights
    DeepSeek open-sources V4.1-Flash-1017 and opens Search and Fetch APIsDeepSeek timeline →
  44. Reflection BeamReflection AIPlatform
    Reflection Beam arrives on SageMaker as an open-weight model you can self-host
  45. Atria DawnShanghai AI LabNew model
    Shanghai AI Lab releases the full Atria Dawn agent model with 512K context
  46. Step 5 PreviewStepFunOpen weights
    StepFun opens Step 5 Preview weights: 600B MoE, 1M context
  47. d1-ultraLiquid AINew model
    Liquid AI releases d1-ultra decision model, scores 65 on the AA Decision Index
  48. Muse Spark OpenMetaOpen weights
    Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights: an 816B MoE with 1M context
  49. GPT-Live-1.1OpenAINew model
    GPT-Live-1.1 adds voices in six languages across ChatGPT, Codex and Dots
  50. TimestralMistral AINew model
    Mistral launches Timestral, its first time-series foundation models, up to 209M parameters
  51. Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIAOpen weights
    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B open multimodal model
  52. Granite Switch 4.1IBMNew model
    IBM Granite Switch 4.1 handles chat, decisions and speech-to-text from one endpoint
  53. Jev 1.14TypeSafe AINew model
    Jev 1.14 adds image input and an optional 262k context
  54. Grok Voice 3.0xAILeaderboard
    Grok Voice 3.0 tops the speech-to-speech index, still $0.08 a minuteGrok timeline →
  55. HiRO-ACEv2Ai2New model
    Ai2's HiRO-ACEv2 generates global 3 km climate data at about 1/300th the cost of X-SHiELD
  56. Gemini 4 ArgonGoogleAPI
    Gemini 4 Argon goes GA with up to 1M output tokensGemini timeline →
  57. Muse WonderMetaNew model
    Meta releases two Muse Wonder models, with the Full version scoring 56
  58. Gemini 3.5 Live TranslateGoogleNew model
    Gemini 3.5 Live Translate covers 70+ languagesGemini timeline →
  59. GLM-5.3-HighspeedZhipu AINew model
    Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Highspeed in gray testing, reportedly ~490 tokens/sGLM timeline →
  60. Microsoft-Decision-1MicrosoftNew model
    Microsoft releases Microsoft-Decision-1, built on Qwen3.5-9B
  61. Step 5 PreviewStepFunLeaderboard
    StepFun's Step 5 Preview tops OpenRouter Trending, with open weights due October 15
  62. Qwen-Image-2.1-TurboAlibabaOpen weights
    Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ships open weights with 8-step generation and editingQwen timeline →
  63. GPT-6 LunaOpenAIAPI
    OpenAI Decisions API enters public beta on GPT-6 LunaOpenAI timeline →
  64. Doubao 2.1 LiteByteDancePlatform
    Doubao 2.1 Lite comes to Doubao Work, along with a canvas mode
  65. Seedream 5.0 FlashByteDancePlatform
    Doubao 2.1 Lite comes to Doubao Work, along with a canvas mode
  66. BeamReflection AIOpen weights
    Reflection unveils Beam, a 501B-parameter open-weight MoE model
  67. Claude Haiku 5.5AnthropicLeaderboard
    Claude Haiku 5.5 jumps to 72.4% on OSWorld and tops Artificial Analysis' small-model tierClaude timeline →
  68. GPT-6OpenAIPlatform
    GPT-6 rolls out in ChatGPT; OpenAI says Codex and Work have 40M active usersOpenAI timeline →
  69. Claude Haiku 5.5AnthropicNew model
    Claude Haiku 5.5 launches at about 75% lower average running cost than Haiku 4.5Claude timeline →
  70. d1-3BLiquid AIOpen weights
    Liquid AI releases open weights for d1-3B and d1-omni-600M multimodal decision models
  71. d1-omni-600MLiquid AIOpen weights
    Liquid AI releases open weights for d1-3B and d1-omni-600M multimodal decision models
  72. Mistral Large 4Mistral AINew model
    Mistral Large 4 enters public preview as a 1.05T MoE with 1M context
  73. PolicyLM-1.7BMusubiOpen weights
    Musubi releases PolicyLM-1.7B, an open-weight moderation model
  74. Intern-DecisionShanghai AI LabOpen weights
    Shanghai AI Lab open-sources Intern-Decision small decision models
  75. GLM-5.3Zhipu AIPlatform
    GLM-5.3 arrives on Amazon Bedrock for coding and long-horizon agentsGLM timeline →
  76. JEPA-AnythingPhAI LabsNew model
    JEPA-Anything: one world model across seven fields, from physics to biology
  77. Qwen3.8-maxAlibabaLeaderboard
    Qwen3.8-max tops the VA-Bench robot-arm benchmark at only 53.93%Qwen timeline →
  78. GPT-6.1 Sol ProOpenAILeaderboard
    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro leads newsroom benchmarkOpenAI timeline →
  79. KolibriAleph AlphaOpen weights
    Kolibri releases 78GB FP8 open weights
  80. Strands Decider 2BAmazonOpen weights
    Strands Decider 2B targets local decisions
  81. Utopai XUtopai StudiosLeaderboard
    Utopai X ranks second on audio-video leaderboard
  82. AstaBriefAi2Open weights
    AllenAI open-sources AstaBrief report model
  83. ClefCloudflareOpen weights
    Cloudflare releases Qwen-based Clef decision models
  84. Clef-flashCloudflareOpen weights
    Cloudflare releases Qwen-based Clef decision models
  85. Claude Opus 5.5AnthropicLeaderboard
    Claude Opus 5.5 leads APEX AccountingClaude timeline →
  86. Qwen3.8-27BAlibabaPlatform
    Qwen3.8-27B arrives on Nebius Token FactoryQwen timeline →
  87. GPT-6 Astra UltrafastOpenAIAPI
    GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast offers up to 8× token generation speedOpenAI timeline →
  88. GriffinTavusNew model
    Tavus introduces Griffin with a limited research preview
  89. Gemini 4 ArgonGoogleNew model
    Gemini 4 Argon launches for select cyber defendersGemini timeline →