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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

models

40

vendors

2018–2026

years
All
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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2018
  • 2026
    The 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
  • 2025
    Reasoning 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
  • 2024
    Multimodality26 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
  • 2023
    The 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
  • 2022
    The ChatGPT moment30 November 2022
  • 12 July 2022
  • 4 April 2022
  • 29 March 2022
  • 27 January 2022
  • 2020
    The scaling race28 May 2020
  • 2019
    23 October 2019
  • 14 February 2019
  • 2018
    The birth of transformers11 October 2018
  • 11 June 2018

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