Model Drops
Every AI model release,
the moment it drops.
Follow the labs, families and models you actually use. Model Drops tracks every release from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen and 30 more labs, predicts when the next one lands, and shows you how they benchmark.
Providers we track
Anthropic
Claude — Opus, Sonnet and Haiku.
OpenAI
GPT, o-series reasoning models, Sora and Whisper.
Google DeepMind
Gemini, Gemma, Veo and Imagen.
Meta AI
Llama — the open-weight family that started the wave.
xAI
Grok, trained on Colossus.
DeepSeek
Frontier reasoning at open-weight prices.
Alibaba Qwen
Qwen — the widest open-weight lineup anywhere.
Mistral AI
Mistral, Magistral, Devstral, Codestral.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K-series, built for long context and agents.
Z.AI
GLM — Zhipu's open-weight coding and agent models.
Amazon
Nova and Titan, native to Bedrock.
Microsoft
Phi small models and the MAI in-house line.
Cohere
Command and North, tuned for enterprise RAG.
NVIDIA
Nemotron — open models tuned for their own silicon.
MiniMax
MiniMax M-series, long context and video.
ByteDance
Seed and Doubao, out of ByteDance's Seed lab.
Perplexity
Sonar — search-grounded answers as an API.
IBM
Granite — small, permissively licensed, enterprise-first.
AI21 Labs
Jamba — hybrid Mamba/Transformer long context.
Allen Institute for AI
OLMo and Molmo — fully open data, weights and code.
Reka AI
Reka Core and Flash, natively multimodal.
Liquid AI
Liquid Foundation Models — small enough for the edge.
Tencent
Hunyuan — text, image and 3D generation.
Baidu
ERNIE — Baidu's flagship multimodal line.
StepFun
Step — multimodal models from Shanghai.
Upstage
Solar — compact bilingual models from Korea.
Nous Research
Hermes — community-tuned open models.
Inception Labs
Mercury — diffusion language models, very fast.
Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati's lab.
Sakana AI
Nature-inspired model merging, out of Tokyo.
Xiaomi
MiMo — on-device-first open models.
Arcee AI
Small merged models for private deployment.
InclusionAI
Ling and Ring, from Ant Group's open lab.
Sarvam AI
Indic-language models built in India.
Poolside
Frontier models trained specifically for software.
Writer
Palmyra — domain-tuned enterprise models.
What you get
- Every lab, family and model version
- Follow a lab, a family, or one model
- Predicted next release dates
- Benchmarks, pricing and context side by side
Also from us: Claude Drops for the Claude Code changelog, and /cards for its slash commands.
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