AI Model Releases: May 2026
17 AI models were released in May 2026, tracked by AI Flash Report with launch date, context window, license and pricing. Every row links to the model's full page.
All May 2026 releases
| Model | Company | Released | Type | Context | License | Pricing | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Step 3.7 Flash | StepFun | LLM | 256K tokens | Apache 2.0 | $0.20 in / $1.15 out | — | |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | LLM | 1M tokens | Proprietary | $6.25 in / $25.00 out | — | |
| LFM2.5-8B-A1B | Liquid AI | LLM | 32K tokens | lfm 1.0 | $0.00 in / $0.00 out | — | |
| HyperNova 60B 2605 | Multiverse Computing | LLM | 131K tokens | Apache 2.0 | $0.04 in / $0.14 out | — | |
| MiniCPM5-1B | OpenBMB | LLM | 128K tokens | apache-2.0 | $0.00 in / $0.00 out | — | |
| gemma-4-12B-it-assistant | LLM | — | — | — | link | ||
| Qwen3.7 Max | Alibaba | LLM | 1M tokens | Proprietary | $2.50 in / $7.50 out | — | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | LLM | 1M tokens | Proprietary | $1.50 in / $9.00 out | link | ||
| the Ettin Reranker Family | Hugging Face | LLM | — | — | — | link | |
| SAME-L | stabilityai | LLM | — | — | — | link | |
| SAME-S | stabilityai | LLM | — | — | — | link | |
| JT-35B-Flash | China Mobile | LLM | 256K tokens | Proprietary | $0.00 in / $0.00 out | — | |
| MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3B | OpenBMB | LLM | 262K tokens | Apache 2.0 | $0.00 in / $0.00 out | — | |
| Ring-2.6-1T | InclusionAI | LLM | 262K tokens | MIT | $0.30 in / $2.50 out | — | |
| GPT-5.5 Instant | OpenAI | LLM | 400K tokens | Proprietary | $5.00 in / $30.00 out | link | |
| gemma-4-31B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf | LLM | — | — | — | link | ||
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf | LLM | — | — | — | link |
Open-weights releases this month
5 of the May 2026 releases ship under an open or open-weights license.
- Step 3.7 Flash StepFun · Apache 2.0
- HyperNova 60B 2605 Multiverse Computing · Apache 2.0
- MiniCPM5-1B OpenBMB · apache-2.0
- MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3B OpenBMB · Apache 2.0
- Ring-2.6-1T InclusionAI · MIT