The history of large language models
A timeline of key LLMs, with newest releases first and early models below. Click a model to see details, facts and sources.
185
models40
vendors2018–2026
yearsAll
OpenAI · 28
Anthropic · 26
Google · 23
Alibaba · 12
DeepSeek · 11
Meta · 11
Mistral AI · 9
xAI · 7
Ant Group · 5
Moonshot AI · 5
Zhipu AI · 5
IBM · 3
Microsoft · 3
Mistral · 3
LG AI Research · 2
Sapiens AI · 2
Sber · 2
SpaceXAI · 2
Thinking Machines Lab · 2
Upstage · 2
Xiaomi · 2
Yandex · 2
AI9Stars · 1
Apodex · 1
Apodex AI · 1
BigScience · 1
Cohere · 1
DeepMind · 1
DeepReinforce · 1
dots studio · 1
Liquid AI · 1
MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models · 1
MiniMax · 1
Motif Technologies · 1
NVIDIA · 1
OpenBMB · 1
Sakana AI · 1
SK Telecom · 1
StepFun · 1
TII · 1
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- 2026The agent race7 October 2026
- 7 October 2026
- 6 October 2026
- 6 October 2026
- 6 October 2026
- 1 October 2026
- 30 September 2026
- 30 September 2026
- 29 September 2026
- 29 September 2026
- 28 September 2026
- 22 September 2026
- 22 September 2026
- 22 September 2026
- 21 September 2026
- 21 September 2026
- 21 September 2026
- 18 September 2026
- 11 September 2026
- 11 September 2026
- 10 September 2026
- 10 September 2026
- 7 September 2026
- 3 September 2026
- 3 September 2026
- 2 September 2026
- 2 September 2026
- 1 September 2026
- 30 August 2026
- 26 August 2026
- 26 August 2026
- 26 August 2026
- 25 August 2026
- 25 August 2026
- 25 August 2026
- 24 August 2026
- 21 August 2026
- 21 August 2026
- 18 August 2026
- 18 August 2026
- 14 August 2026
- 14 August 2026
- 13 August 2026
- 13 August 2026
- 13 August 2026
- 12 August 2026
- 12 August 2026
- 12 August 2026
- 12 August 2026
- 12 August 2026
- 12 August 2026
- 12 August 2026
- 11 August 2026
- 10 August 2026
- 10 August 2026
- 6 August 2026
- 6 August 2026
- 6 August 2026
- 5 August 2026
- 4 August 2026
- 4 August 2026
- 4 August 2026
- 3 August 2026
- 3 August 2026
- 3 August 2026
- 31 July 2026
- 31 July 2026
- 30 July 2026
- 27 July 2026
- 24 July 2026
- 21 July 2026
- 16 July 2026
- 15 July 2026
- 9 July 2026
- 9 July 2026
- 8 July 2026
- 6 July 2026
- 2 July 2026
- 30 June 2026
- 16 June 2026
- 9 June 2026
- 1 June 2026
- 28 May 2026
- 20 May 2026
- 19 May 2026
- 24 April 2026
- 24 April 2026
- 20 April 2026
- 16 April 2026
- 2 April 2026
- 5 March 2026
- 19 February 2026
- 16 February 2026
- 11 February 2026
- 5 February 2026
- 27 January 2026
- 25 January 2026
- 2025Reasoning and agents17 December 2025
- 11 December 2025
- 2 December 2025
- 1 December 2025
- 24 November 2025
- 18 November 2025
- 17 November 2025
- 13 November 2025
- 6 November 2025
- 15 October 2025
- 29 September 2025
- 21 August 2025
- 7 August 2025
- 5 August 2025
- 5 August 2025
- 28 July 2025
- 11 July 2025
- 9 July 2025
- 17 June 2025
- 10 June 2025
- 22 May 2025
- 22 May 2025
- 7 May 2025
- 29 April 2025
- 16 April 2025
- 14 April 2025
- 5 April 2025
- 25 March 2025
- 27 February 2025
- 25 February 2025
- 24 February 2025
- 17 February 2025
- 5 February 2025
- 31 January 2025
- 20 January 2025
- 2024Multimodality26 December 2024
- 20 December 2024
- 17 December 2024
- 11 December 2024
- 6 December 2024
- 28 November 2024
- 22 October 2024
- 19 September 2024
- 12 September 2024
- 14 August 2024
- 24 July 2024
- 23 July 2024
- 18 July 2024
- 20 June 2024
- 7 June 2024
- 14 May 2024
- 14 May 2024
- 13 May 2024
- 7 May 2024
- 23 April 2024
- 18 April 2024
- 17 March 2024
- 11 March 2024
- 4 March 2024
- 4 March 2024
- 4 March 2024
- 4 March 2024
- 26 February 2024
- 21 February 2024
- 15 February 2024
- 2023The vendor race12 December 2023
- 11 December 2023
- 6 December 2023
- 27 September 2023
- 3 August 2023
- 18 July 2023
- 11 July 2023
- 25 May 2023
- 17 May 2023
- 24 April 2023
- 14 March 2023
- 14 March 2023
- 24 February 2023
- 2022The ChatGPT moment30 November 2022
- 12 July 2022
- 4 April 2022
- 29 March 2022
- 27 January 2022
- 2020The scaling race28 May 2020
- 201923 October 2019
- 14 February 2019
- 2018The birth of transformers11 October 2018
- 11 June 2018