Release Analytics
Cumulative Releases Over Time
The compounding pace of frontier model releases.
Release Frequency (Per Month)
New models shipped each calendar month.
Releases by Year
Year-over-year totals. 2026 is partial (through May 31).
20221
202318
202442
202571
2026(YTD)28
Current Frontier Leaders by Benchmark
The top-scoring model on every benchmark we track. Newer benchmarks (SWE-Bench Pro, HLE, OSWorld, GDPval) only have a handful of entries so far, so this is a snapshot rather than a trend.
SWE-Bench Pro
Claude Opus 4.8 · Anthropic
Humanity's Last Exam · no tools
Claude Opus 4.8 · Anthropic
OSWorld-Verified
Claude Opus 4.8 · Anthropic
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.5 · OpenAI
GDPval-AA
Claude Opus 4.8 · Anthropic
Release Cadence
Average number of days between releases per company. Shorter bars = ships more often.
Mistral35d28 releases
OpenAI39d33 releases
DeepSeek48d20 releases
Google50d24 releases
Anthropic62d20 releases
Cursor67d4 releases
xAI81d12 releases
Moonshot AI104d10 releases
Meta142d9 releases
Total Releases by Company
OpenAI
33Mistral
28Google
24Anthropic
20DeepSeek
20xAI
12Moonshot AI
10Meta
9Cursor
4