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Major Release 2026-02-19
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google
Google's flagship reasoning model with a 2x jump on hard multi-step tasks.
Major Release 2026-02-17
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
Near-Opus quality at a fraction of the cost, with Agent Teams orchestration.
Update 2026-02-12
DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek
Open-weight MoE with a 1M+ token context window and strong coding.
Top 10 on the leaderboard
All benchmarks →| # | Model | Company | Score |
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| 1 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | 77.1% |
All tracked models
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| Gemini 3.1 Pro Google's flagship reasoning model with a 2x jump on hard multi-step tasks. | 2026-02-19 | |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Near-Opus quality at a fraction of the cost, with Agent Teams orchestration. | Anthropic | 2026-02-17 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 Open-weight MoE with a 1M+ token context window and strong coding. | DeepSeek | 2026-02-12 |
| GLM-5 First frontier model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend silicon. | Zhipu AI | 2026-02-11 |
| Seedance 2.0 ByteDance's video generation flagship — cinematic quality at scale | ByteDance | 2026-02-10 |
| GPT-5.3 Codex Coding-specialized variant of GPT-5.3, tuned for agentic IDE workflows. | OpenAI | 2026-02-05 |
| Kimi K2 Moonshot's open-weight frontier MoE with strong agentic benchmarks. | Moonshot AI | 2026-01-20 |
| GPT-5.2 Codex Prior-gen Codex variant of GPT-5.2 for agentic coding. | OpenAI | 2025-12-18 |
| Mistral Large 3 Mistral's flagship proprietary model, tuned for European enterprise. | Mistral | 2025-12-15 |
| GPT-5.2 Late-2025 GPT-5 refresh with improved reasoning and steerability. | OpenAI | 2025-12-11 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic's top-tier reasoning model for complex research and agents. | Anthropic | 2025-11-24 |
| Gemini 3 Pro First Gemini 3 tier release; strong multimodal + long-context. | 2025-11-18 | |
| GPT-5.1 Maintenance update to GPT-5 with steerability + latency improvements. | OpenAI | 2025-11-12 |
| GPT-5 OpenAI's flagship unified reasoning + chat model replacing the GPT-4 line. | OpenAI | 2025-08-15 |
| Claude Opus 4.1 Mid-2025 Opus refresh focused on agentic coding reliability. | Anthropic | 2025-07-15 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Google's cost-optimized multimodal model with thinking mode. | 2025-06-20 | |
| Claude Sonnet 4 Claude 4 mid-tier with strong coding and long-horizon agentic reliability. | Anthropic | 2025-05-22 |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7 Extended-thinking update to Sonnet 3.5 with visible reasoning toggle. | Anthropic | 2025-02-24 |
| DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek's breakthrough open-weight MoE rivaling GPT-4-class quality. | DeepSeek | 2024-12-26 |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash First Gemini 2 model — fast, cheap, multimodal, with tool use native. | 2024-12-11 | |
| Moonshot Kimi China's long-context pioneer — 1M token window at launch | Moonshot AI | 2024-10-16 |
| GPT-o1-preview OpenAI's first public reasoning model — 'thinking before answering' | OpenAI | 2024-09-12 |
| Grok-2 Elon's second-gen Grok — real-time X/Twitter data access | xAI | 2024-08-13 |
| GitHub Copilot Chat AI pair programmer embedded in VS Code and GitHub — 1M+ enterprise seats | Microsoft | 2024-07-25 |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet The mid-2024 Sonnet release that set the SOTA bar for coding and agents. | Anthropic | 2024-06-20 |
| Grok-1.5 Grok's reasoning upgrade — first xAI model with strong STEM benchmarks | xAI | 2024-03-28 |
| Claude 3 Opus Anthropic's most powerful pre-Claude 4 model — tops GPT-4 on reasoning | Anthropic | 2024-03-04 |
| Claude 3 Sonnet Balanced Claude 3 variant — best price/performance in the family | Anthropic | 2024-03-04 |
| Claude 3 Haiku Fastest and cheapest Claude 3 — sub-second latency at $0.25/M | Anthropic | 2024-03-04 |
| Mistral Large | Mistral | 2024-02-26 |
| Sora OpenAI's text-to-video model — up to 60-second photorealistic clips | OpenAI | 2024-02-15 |
| Gemini 1.5 Pro Google's first 1M-context model — multimodal needle-in-haystack champion | 2024-02-15 | |
| text-embedding-3-large OpenAI's best embedding model — 3× cheaper than ada-002 with better MTEB | OpenAI | 2024-01-25 |
| GPT-4 Turbo GPT-4 with 128K context and knowledge through April 2023 — 3× cheaper than GPT-4 | OpenAI | 2024-01-25 |
| Midjourney v6 Midjourney's photorealism leap — text rendering finally works | Midjourney | 2023-12-21 |
| Grok-1 xAI's open-source release — 314B MoE, first frontier model fully open-sourced | xAI | 2023-12-07 |
| AlphaCode 2 DeepMind's coding specialist — top 15% of competitive programmers | Google DeepMind | 2023-12-06 |
| Gemini Ultra Google's first model to beat GPT-4 on MMLU — 90%+ with CoT | 2023-12-06 | |
| Gemini Pro Google's workhorse Gemini model — free tier in Google AI Studio | 2023-12-06 | |
| Claude 2.1 Claude 2 update — 200K context and reduced hallucinations | Anthropic | 2023-11-21 |
| Whisper v3 State-of-the-art open speech recognition — 99 languages, open weights | OpenAI | 2023-11-06 |
| DALL-E 3 OpenAI's best image model — coherent text in images, integrated into ChatGPT | OpenAI | 2023-10-04 |
| GPT-4V (Vision) GPT-4 gains eyes — the model that made multimodal mainstream | OpenAI | 2023-09-25 |
| Code Llama 34B Meta's code-specialized open model — top open-source coding at launch | Meta | 2023-08-24 |
| RT-2 (Robotics Transformer) Google's vision-language-action model — robots that reason from web knowledge | 2023-07-28 | |
| Stable Diffusion XL Open-weight image generation flagship — photorealistic, runs locally | Stability AI | 2023-07-26 |
| Llama 2 70B Meta's open-weight landmark — 70B that matched GPT-3.5 and ignited open AI | Meta | 2023-07-18 |
| Claude 2 Claude's first major leap — 100K context and better at instructions | Anthropic | 2023-07-11 |
| PaLM 2 Google's multilingual flagship — powers Bard 2023, 100+ languages | 2023-05-10 | |
| GPT-4 The model that changed everything — GPT-4 set the standard for capable AI | OpenAI | 2023-03-14 |
| Claude 1.3 Anthropic's first public model — 100K context ahead of its time | Anthropic | 2023-03-14 |
| MusicLM Google's text-to-music model — high-fidelity, 24kHz stereo from text prompts | 2023-01-26 | |
| ChatGPT (GPT-3.5 Turbo) The product that launched the AI era — 100M users in 2 months | OpenAI | 2022-11-30 |
| DALL-E 2 OpenAI's image-generation breakthrough — photorealism and inpainting | OpenAI | 2022-04-06 |
| PaLM Google's 540B pathways model — first to demonstrate chain-of-thought at scale | 2022-04-04 | |
| InstructGPT RLHF alignment applied to GPT-3 — the precursor to ChatGPT | OpenAI | 2022-01-27 |
| Codex GPT-3 trained on code — the engine behind GitHub Copilot v1 | OpenAI | 2021-08-10 |
| DALL-E The original image-generating AI — multimodal GPT-3 that shocked the world | OpenAI | 2021-01-05 |
| GPT-3 The model that showed scaling works — 175B parameters, few-shot learning pioneer | OpenAI | 2020-06-11 |
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