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Launch timeline

What counts as a launch here: first external access to a model or product. A re-listing is not a new launch, and a waitlist preview is not a launch — those stay on Coming Next. Newest first, checked 25 Oct 2026.

October 2026

The October wave was a price and access month as much as a model month: intro prices, preview prices and subscription-only splits mattered as much as the models themselves.

DateLaunchLabTypeAccessPrice
24 Oct 2026Kimi K3.1 Pro — Moonshot's open-weight flagship, service first, weights to followMoonshot AIChat / CodingGeneralNot published in the sources checked
22 Oct 2026Carbon-X — Hugging Face open model that chats with DNAHugging FaceScience / DNAOpen-weightFree to download, Apache 2.0 licence; run it yourself, no API price published
19 Oct 2026FLUX 3 Max — video model, price and access not yet publishedBlack Forest LabsVideoNot publishedNot published in the sources checked
19 Oct 2026MiniMax M3.1 Flash — fast tier, price not yet publishedMiniMaxChat / CodingNot publishedNot published in the sources checked
15 Oct 2026Muse Spark Open — Meta's open-weight general model, licence to confirmMetaChat / CodingOpen-weightNot published in the sources checked
15 Oct 2026FLUX 3 Image Klein — open image model for ordinary graphics cardsBlack Forest LabsImageOpen-weightNot published in the sources checked
15 Oct 2026NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL — open model for specialised work, claims to checkNVIDIAChat / ReasoningOpen-weightNot published in the sources checked
13 Oct 2026Gemini 4 Argon — agentic flagship for paid developers, price doubles 1 DecGoogle DeepMindChat / ReasoningGeneralIntro $2 input / $10 output per 1M tokens to 30 Nov 2026, then $4 / $20
12 Oct 2026Muse Wonder and Wonder Full — weaker model by API, stronger by subscription onlyMetaChat / AgentsAPI + SubscriptionNo pay-as-you-go API price announced for Wonder Full; available via two Muse Code subscription tiers
7 Oct 2026GPT-6 in ChatGPT — Sol for paid, Luna for free, Astra for hard reasoningOpenAIChat / ReasoningGeneralSol $2 / $10 per 1M tokens; Luna $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M tokens; Astra price not published in sources checked
7 Oct 2026Claude Haiku 5.5 — fastest small model, priced to match GPT-6 LunaAnthropicChat / CodingGeneral$0.10 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens for requests under 100,000 tokens
7 Oct 2026MAI-Code-1.1-Flash — fast coding model, caps and price not publishedMicrosoft AICodingNot publishedNot published in the sources checked
6 Oct 2026Mistral Large 4 — public preview now, weights promised by end of OctoberMistral AIChat / ReasoningPreview$1.36 / $4.18 per 1M tokens posted; $0.68 / $2.09 in public preview
6 Oct 2026Nano Banana 2.1 — image model, changes not yet published hereGoogle DeepMindImageNot publishedNot published in the sources checked
6 Oct 2026EmbeddingGemma 2 — embedding model for search, not a chatbotGoogle DeepMindSearch / EmbeddingNot publishedNot published in the sources checked
5 Oct 2026Beam — general and reasoning model, details not yet publishedReflection AIChat / ReasoningNot publishedNot published in the sources checked

Sources are named on each launch page. Benchmark figures, where printed, are reported figures from the named source — not tests run by this site.

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