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A 2026 release chronology reports seven frontier models in 78 days and eleven shipped through July, documenting a highly compressed cadence. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Frontier AI Models 2026: Every Release, Month by Month · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:b59f3c8b72fbb2a7ff649f7099afe00f3826fcd3ac0bdab1d9a8a868c83a5f7d

Between February and April, the world's leading AI labs collectively released seven frontier models in 78 days - a new state-of-the-art system roughly every 11 days ... Eleven have shipped through July.