AI model releases in August 2026

The confirmed release record for August 2026, grouped by provider and linked to the primary source used for each date.

43 confirmed releases28 providersData through Aug 31, 2026How releases are confirmed

August 2026

43 releases across 28 providers

Confirmed releases

Release	Provider	Confirmed	Evidence	BenchLM
August 2026· 43 releases
Mercury 2.5 Preview	Inception	Aug 31, 2026Exact day	OpenRouter	Benchmarks
Inworld Realtime TTS-2	Inworld	Aug 31, 2026Exact day	Inworld	Benchmarks
Inworld Realtime TTS-2 Flash	Inworld	Aug 31, 2026Exact day	Inworld	Benchmarks
Phonon-1	Fermion Research	Aug 28, 2026Exact day	Fermion Research Phonon-1 launch post Phonon-1 weights and model card	Benchmarks
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin	InclusionAI	Aug 28, 2026Exact day	Vercel AI Gateway	Benchmarks
Hy4 preview	Tencent	Aug 28, 2026Exact day	Tencent Hy Team	Benchmarks
Cartesia Sonic 3.6	Cartesia	Aug 27, 2026Exact day	Cartesia	Benchmarks
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	Alibaba	Aug 26, 2026Exact day	Qwen	Benchmarks
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe	Google	Aug 26, 2026Exact day	Google	Benchmarks
GLM-5.3-Flash	Z.AI	Aug 26, 2026Exact day	Z.AI	Benchmarks
Granite 4.23 model variants	IBM	Aug 25, 2026Exact day	IBM Research	Benchmarks
Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC	IBM	Aug 25, 2026Exact day	IBM	Benchmarks
Apodex 1.12 model variants	Apodex	Aug 24, 2026Exact day	Apodex	Benchmarks
Ornith 1.53 model variants	Ornith AI	Aug 18, 2026Exact day	Ornith	Benchmarks
AuK	Tencent	Aug 18, 2026Exact day	Tencent	Benchmarks
Qwen3.8-27B	Alibaba	Aug 14, 2026Exact day	Alibaba (Qwen)	Benchmarks
dots3-note Preview	Dots Studio	Aug 14, 2026Exact day	Dots Studio Hugging Face	Benchmarks
UI-Mate GUI agents2 model variants	Tencent	Aug 14, 2026Exact day	Tencent HY Frontier	Benchmarks
GLM-5.3	Z.AI	Aug 14, 2026Exact day	Z.AI	Benchmarks
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813	DeepSeek	Aug 13, 2026Exact day	DeepSeek API Docs Hugging Face	Benchmarks
Gemini 3.7 Flash	Google	Aug 13, 2026Exact day	Google Gemini API model documentation	Benchmarks
Toast 1	Mixedbread	Aug 13, 2026Exact day	Mixedbread	Benchmarks
LFM2.5-VL-3B	LiquidAI	Aug 12, 2026Exact day	Liquid AI Hugging Face	Benchmarks
Grok 4.6	xAI	Aug 12, 2026Exact day	xAI	Benchmarks
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash	Microsoft	Aug 11, 2026Exact day	Microsoft AI	Benchmarks
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4	NVIDIA	Aug 11, 2026Exact day	NVIDIA Hugging Face	Benchmarks
Solar Pro 4	Upstage	Aug 11, 2026Exact day	Upstage	Benchmarks
North Micro Vision Instruct	Cohere	Aug 10, 2026Exact day	Cohere Labs	Benchmarks
Ling 3.0 Tiny	InclusionAI	Aug 10, 2026Exact day	InclusionAI	Benchmarks
Muse Glimmer 30B	Meta	Aug 10, 2026Exact day	Meta AI Research	Benchmarks
GPT-5.6 Cyber (Daybreak Red)	OpenAI	Aug 10, 2026Exact day	OpenAI Daybreak	Benchmarks
Qwen3.8-27B	Alibaba	Aug 5, 2026Exact day	Qwen Hugging Face	Benchmarks
BTL-4	Bad Theory Labs	Aug 5, 2026Exact day	Bad Theory Labs Hugging Face	Benchmarks
Macaw	Bad Theory Labs	Aug 5, 2026Exact day	Bad Theory Labs	Benchmarks
SeedRealtime	ByteDance	Aug 5, 2026Exact day	ByteDance	Benchmarks
Hark Handoff	Hark	Aug 5, 2026Exact day	Hark	Benchmarks
Muse Spark 1.2	Meta	Aug 5, 2026Exact day	Meta	Benchmarks
Ling 3.0 Flash FP8	InclusionAI	Aug 4, 2026Exact day	InclusionAI Hugging Face	Benchmarks
LFM2.5-2.6B	LiquidAI	Aug 4, 2026Exact day	Liquid AI	Benchmarks
Hy ASR 3.0 preview	Tencent	Aug 4, 2026Exact day	Tencent	Benchmarks
Qwen3.8 Max	Alibaba	Aug 3, 2026Exact day	Qwen	Benchmarks
Pokee-Isaac 28B v0	Pokee AI	Aug 3, 2026Exact day	Pokee AI	Benchmarks
Sakana Namazu	Sakana AI	Aug 3, 2026Exact day	Sakana AI	Benchmarks

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