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Release calendar

A chronological record of tracked releases. Exact dates and broad launch windows remain separate, with no assumed first day of a month.

ESTIMATED WINDOW2027 · Q1

OpenAI

OpenAI Jalapeño

Custom-designed inference ASIC program codenamed Jalapeño engineered to accelerate OpenAI model operations.

Expected
ESTIMATED WINDOWDate to be announced

OpenAI

GPT-6.1 Astra

Planned GPT-6 frontier successor cancelled following internal safety reviews regarding unconstrained autonomous agent actions.

Cancelled
ESTIMATED WINDOW2026 · Q4

OpenAI

OpenAI Dots Agents

Always-on autonomous agent framework designed to execute complex digital workflows on behalf of ChatGPT users.

Confirmed
ESTIMATED WINDOW2027

Anthropic

Claude Frontier Academy

Anthropic enterprise enablement initiative training 10,000 frontier deployment specialists for production agent integration.

Confirmed
ESTIMATED WINDOW2027

Google DeepMind

Gemini 4 Frontier

Next-generation frontier multimodal model family from Google DeepMind undergoing post-training scaling for 2027.

Expected
ESTIMATED WINDOW2027

Google DeepMind

Project Astra Multi-Device

Universal real-time multimodal assistant expanding into consumer smartphones, smart glasses and spatial hardware.

Expected
ESTIMATED WINDOWDate to be announced

Meta

Llama 4 Behemoth

Massive 2-trillion parameter teacher model developed by Meta AI currently postponed for extended training and evaluation.

Delayed
ESTIMATED WINDOW2027

xAI

Grok 5

Next-generation flagship reasoning and code model currently in training on xAI Colossus supercomputing clusters.

Expected
ESTIMATED WINDOWDate to be announced

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-R2

Second-generation pure reinforcement learning reasoning model postponed for specialized domestic hardware adaptation.

Delayed
ESTIMATED WINDOW2026 · Q4

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4-Pro Weights

Open-weight foundation model packaging in final preparations following initial API serving evaluation benchmarks.

Expected
ESTIMATED WINDOW2027

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen 4

Multi-trillion parameter foundation model confirmed by Alibaba Cloud at Apsara Conference for 2027 launch.

Confirmed
ESTIMATED WINDOW2027

Midjourney

Midjourney Scanner

Full-body 3D ultrasound hardware scanner and medical volumetric reconstruction device from Midjourney.

Confirmed