Timelines · releases and lineup
Model and agent release timeline.
46 dated releases, retirements and board moments across video, image, audio and decision models and open agents. Only dates stated in a source; month-only dates are marked.
October 2026
- Board HeyGen Video 1.0 pushed down to #4 on DesignArena, per the same author Follow-up postx.com ↗
- Board HeyGen Video 1.0 shown at #1 on DesignArena image-to-video (1331) Post by a HeyGen product leadx.com ↗
- Agent Cline desktop-v0.0.47 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Agent OpenBot v0.42.0 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Agent OpenClaw v2026.10.4 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Agent OpenCode v1.19.3 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Agent Hermes Agent v0.22.2 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Agent Kilo Code jetbrains/v7.1.10 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Audio Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview / S2.1 Pro releasedartificialanalysis.ai ↗
- Decision jev-1.14.0 released image input in state, experimental long context, Box outputs (per jevai.net)docs.typesafe.ai ↗
- Agent OpenHands v1.27.1 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Agent Crush v0.98.1 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Agent goose v1.54.0 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Agent Open Interpreter rust-v0.0.56 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
- Image Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 releasedai.google.dev ↗
- Image FLUX 3 Image (+ FLUX.2 family) releaseddocs.bfl.ml ↗
September 2026
- Video HeyGen Video 1.0 releasedhelp.heygen.com ↗
- Video Utopai X releasedutopaistudios.com ↗
- Audio Eleven v4 / v4 Turbo releasedelevenlabs.io ↗
- Audio Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus released 2026-09-24 (AA)artificialanalysis.ai ↗
- Retired Sora 2 / Sora 2 Pro: API removal scheduled OpenAIapnews.com ↗
- Audio Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS / Flash-Lite TTS released 2026-09-23 (AA listing)artificialanalysis.ai ↗
- Decision Jev (TypeSafe AI) out of stealth with jev-1.13.0thenewstack.io ↗
- Audio Suno v6 / v6-mini releasedsuno.com ↗
- Image GPT-Image-2.5 (Sunburst / Flare) releaseddevelopers.openai.com ↗
- Image MAI-Image-2.6 (+ Flash) released 2026-09-04 (Foundry public preview)techcommunity.microsoft.com ↗
- Video Boreal-H3 (ads-specific) released Sep 2026 (AA listing)artificialanalysis.ai ↗
August 2026
- Audio Inworld Realtime TTS-2 / Flash released 2026-08-31 (AA)artificialanalysis.ai ↗
- Audio Sonic 3.6 released 2026-08-27 (stable snapshot sonic-3.6-2026-08-27)docs.cartesia.ai ↗
- Video Wan 3.0 released 2026-08-13 (announced); GA 2026-08-24alibabacloud.com ↗
- Video LTX-2.5 (Fast / Pro) releaseddocs.ltx.io ↗
- Video MiniMax H3 released Jul 2026 (AA listing); open-sourced 2026-08-03; H3 Max Aug 2026minimax.io ↗
- Video Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 released Aug 2026 (latest update)ai.google.dev ↗
- Image Grok Imagine Image 2.0 released Aug 2026x.ai ↗
July 2026
- Video Dreamina Seedance 2.5 releasedseed.bytedance.com ↗
- Image Midjourney V8.2 releaseddocs.midjourney.com ↗
- Video FLUX 3 Video released early access 2026-07-23; GA 2026-08-04bfl.ai ↗
- Image Seedream 5.0 Pro releasedseed.bytedance.com ↗
- Image Muse Image released 2026-07-07 (with Muse Video)ai.meta.com ↗
May 2026
- Video Grok Imagine Video 1.5 released May 2026 (AA listing)artificialanalysis.ai ↗
April 2026
- Retired Sora 2 / Sora 2 Pro: app/web ended OpenAIapnews.com ↗
March 2026
- Retired Sora 2 / Sora 2 Pro: Shutdown announced OpenAIapnews.com ↗
February 2026
- Audio MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD / Turbo released 2026-02-14 (Turbo, AA)artificialanalysis.ai ↗
January 2026
- Video Veo 3.1 (Standard / Fast / Lite) released Jan 2026 (AA listing)artificialanalysis.ai ↗
August 2025
- Agent Aider v0.86.0 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗
May 2025
- Agent SWE-agent v1.1.0 GitHub releasegithub.com ↗