AI history

Key dates, launches and versions of each AI, newest first, grouped by year. Each card shows the publisher: GitHub Copilot (coding assistant, 2021) is not Microsoft Copilot (general assistant, 2023).

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202616

October 7, 2026Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Haiku 5.5 released.
September 28, 2026Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5 released.
September 22, 2026Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Opus 5.5 released.
September 22, 2026Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-6 released.
July 24, 2026Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Opus 5 released.
July 9, 2026Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-5.6 released.
June 30, 2026Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Sonnet 5 released.
May 28, 2026Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Opus 4.8 released.
May 19, 2026Model
GeminiGoogle
Gemini 3.5 released.
April 29, 2026Model
Mistral AIMistral AI
Mistral Medium 3.5 released.
April 24, 2026Model
DeepSeekDeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4 released.
April 23, 2026Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-5.5 released.
April 16, 2026Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Opus 4.7 released.
February 17, 2026Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6 released.
February 12, 2026Model
DeepSeekDeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2 released.
February 5, 2026Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Opus 4.6 released.

202517

December 11, 2025Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-5.2 released.
November 24, 2025Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Opus 4.5 released.
November 18, 2025Model
GeminiGoogle
Gemini 3 Pro released.
November 12, 2025Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-5.1 released.
October 15, 2025Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5 released.
September 29, 2025Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 released.
August 7, 2025Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-5 released.
August 5, 2025Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude Opus 4.1 released.
July 9, 2025Model
GrokxAI
Grok 4 released.
May 22, 2025Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude 4 released.
April 14, 2025Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-4.1 released.
April 3, 2025Version
MidjourneyMidjourney
New version: Midjourney V7.
March 25, 2025Model
GeminiGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Pro released.
February 27, 2025Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-4.5 released.
February 24, 2025Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude 3.7 Sonnet released.
February 17, 2025Model
GrokxAI
Grok 3 released.
January 20, 2025Model
DeepSeekDeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model released.

202411

December 26, 2024Model
DeepSeekDeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3 released.
December 11, 2024Model
GeminiGoogle
Gemini 2.0 Flash released.
October 22, 2024Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku released.
September 12, 2024Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
o1 released.
August 13, 2024Model
GrokxAI
Grok-2 released.
June 20, 2024Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet released.
May 13, 2024Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-4o released (text, voice and image).
March 4, 2024Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude 3 (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus) released.
February 26, 2024Product
Mistral AIMistral AI
Mistral AI launches Mistral Large and the Le Chat assistant.
February 15, 2024Model
GeminiGoogle
Gemini 1.5 released.
February 8, 2024Product
GeminiGoogle
Bard becomes Gemini.

202314

December 21, 2023Version
MidjourneyMidjourney
New version: Midjourney V6.
December 6, 2023Model
GeminiGoogle
Google introduces Gemini 1.0.
November 21, 2023Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude 2.1 released.
November 15, 2023Product
Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft
Bing Chat becomes Microsoft Copilot.
November 6, 2023Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-4 Turbo released.
November 4, 2023Launch
GrokxAI
xAI introduces Grok.
September 27, 2023Model
Mistral AIMistral AI
Mistral AI releases its first model, Mistral 7B.
July 11, 2023Model
ClaudeAnthropic
Claude 2 released.
March 22, 2023Version
GitHub CopilotGitHub
GitHub announces Copilot X (chat and voice in the editor).
March 21, 2023Launch
GeminiGoogle
Google opens Bard to the public (US and UK).
March 15, 2023Version
MidjourneyMidjourney
New version: Midjourney V5.
March 14, 2023Launch
ClaudeAnthropic
Anthropic introduces Claude to the public.
March 14, 2023Model
ChatGPTOpenAI
GPT-4 released.
February 7, 2023Launch
Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft
Microsoft introduces the new Bing with AI chat.

20224

December 7, 2022Launch
PerplexityPerplexity AI
Perplexity, an answer engine, launches.
November 30, 2022Launch
ChatGPTOpenAI
OpenAI launches ChatGPT.
July 12, 2022Launch
MidjourneyMidjourney
Midjourney opens its public beta.
June 21, 2022Product
GitHub CopilotGitHub
GitHub Copilot becomes generally available.

20211

June 29, 2021Launch
GitHub CopilotGitHub
Technical preview of GitHub Copilot, GitHub's coding assistant.