AI launch,
in order.
A curated, chronological archive of AI launch: 9 entries with summaries and sources.
GLM-5.2
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2 under an MIT license, a 744B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1M-token context window, outperforming GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro at a fraction of the cost.
Models · Zhipu AI
Apple Siri AI
Apple announced a complete architectural rebuild of Siri, powered by Google’s Gemini models, enabling multi-step task execution and contextual continuity across devices.
Agents · Apple
Microsoft MAI Model Family
Microsoft launched seven proprietary MAI models at Build 2026, including MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1-Flash, and MAI-Image-2.5, marking a shift to in-house AI development.
Models · Microsoft
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a new audio model for live speech-to-speech translation supporting over 70 languages.
Multimodal · Google
GPT-4
A large multimodal model with markedly stronger reasoning and exam performance than its predecessors.
Language Models · OpenAI
LLaMA open weights
A family of capable language models with openly available weights, catalyzing the open-weights ecosystem.
Open Source · Meta
ChatGPT launches
A conversational interface to a large language model that reached mass adoption and brought AI into mainstream use.
Products · OpenAI
Whisper speech recognition
An open speech-recognition model trained on large-scale weak supervision, robust across many languages.
Audio · OpenAI
Stable Diffusion released
An openly released text-to-image diffusion model that brought image generation to a wide audience.
Image Generation · Stability AI
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