Neither Anthropic nor OpenAI offers a "notify me" button for new models. A new Claude or GPT model usually shows up first in the provider's API model list and announcement post, and most people hear about it hours later from a social feed. If you build on these models, that delay matters: a new model can be cheaper, faster, or better at the task you are paying for today. This guide covers the ways to get a new Claude model notification or a GPT alert the same day, and which one to pick.
The fastest option: a push alert app
AI Drops watches public model catalogs across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek and more, and sends a push notification when a new model appears. The same app alerts you to each new Claude Code, Codex and Cursor release, with a link to the official notes. There is no account to create.
- Install AI Drops from the App Store.
- Pick the labs and tools you follow.
- Turn on model release notifications and allow notifications when iOS asks.
You can see what the alerts are built from on the web: the new AI model releases timeline lists every model by date, and the AI model tracker estimates when each model line is likely to ship next.
Watch the GitHub releases
For the tools rather than the models, GitHub works well. On the anthropics/claude-code or openai/codex repository, choose Watch, then Custom, then Releases. GitHub then emails you, or notifies you in its app, for each release. It does not cover model launches, because models are not released through a repository.
Subscribe to a feed
Every GitHub repository publishes a releases Atom feed at github.com/<owner>/<repo>/releases.atom, which any RSS reader can follow. Feed readers are good for reading, but most only notify you if you set up paid rules, so treat them as an archive rather than an alert.
Follow the labs
Anthropic and OpenAI announce models on their news pages and social accounts. Turning on post notifications for those accounts works, but you also get every other post they make, which is why most people end up muting them.
| Method | Covers new models | Covers tool releases | Noise |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Drops push alerts | Yes, across providers | Yes | Low: only releases |
| GitHub release watch | No | Yes, per repository | Low |
| RSS feed | No | Yes, per repository | Depends on reader |
| Lab social accounts | Yes | Sometimes | High |
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Maintainer, AI Drops
Ian builds AI Drops and reads every Claude Code, OpenAI, and Cursor release so you don't have to. He writes plain-English guides to AI coding tools, drawing directly from the official changelogs and documentation.