Unverified 2026 AI model roadmap circulating: GPT-5.5, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemma 4 timeline
dumpshoot · reddit · 2026-09-24
An unverified 2026 AI model release timeline is circulating on Reddit, more like a rumor compilation than official information. Highlights from January to July:
- Jan: Kimi K2.5 with vision and stronger agent workflows
- Feb: GPT-5.3-Codex, MiniMax M2.5, ByteDance Seed 2.0, Qwen3.5-Plus, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro
- Mar: GPT-5.4/5.4 Pro, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, Mistral Small 4 and Voxtral TTS, Cohere Transcribe
- Apr: Gemma 4, Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 flagships, DeepSeek-V4 (1M-token preview), Grok voice model
- May: GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT default, Microsoft MAI reasoning/image models, Claude Opus 4.8
- Jun: GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Fable/Mythos 5, Kimi K2.7 Code, Mistral OCR 4
- Jul: Grok 4.5 API, Mistral's robot navigation model Robostral Navigate
None of this is officially confirmed; day-precision dates suggest community speculation. Read it as a rough sense of expected vendor cadence, not fact.
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