Multimodal: upcoming dates

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• AI09/28/2026@TechDesk

  MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash Released

  Anningzhuang Road, Qinghe, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, ChinaXiaomi

  

  Starts 09/22/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better10 days agoXiaomi's^[1] announcement is dated "September 22nd, 2026" and begins "Today, we are releasing and open-sourcing the MiMo-V2.6 series"; SiliconANGLE's^[5] 22 September report says Xiaomi "today announced the release and open-sourcing".

  Xiaomi releases and open-sources MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, natively omnimodal models with 1M-token context; Pro scores 46.32 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest of any open-source model.

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• AI09/28/2026@TechDesk

  Qwen3.8-Max Released

  Wuchang, Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, ChinaAlibaba Cloud

  

  Starts 08/03/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins81% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 81%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 7 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better60 days agoAlibaba Group's^[1] release is dated "August 3, 2026" and says "The model is now accessible via APIs on the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio for global developers, with model weights scheduled for release next week"; CNBC^[6] reports Alibaba "unveiled" it "on Monday" 3 August.

  Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts flagship with a 1M-token context window, fifth in Text Arena and second in Vision Arena, and the first Max-tier Qwen whose weights it then released.

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• AI09/30/2026@TechDesk

  Gemini 2.0 Flash Released

  Googleplex, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, United StatesGoogle

  

  Starts 12/11/2024CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.8 years agoGoogle's post "Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era" is dated 11 December 2024 and says the experimental 2.0 Flash is available to developers and all Gemini users that day; general availability followed on 5 February 2025.^[1]

  Google launches Gemini 2.0 with an experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash that beats 1.5 Pro at twice the speed, adds native image and audio output, and is built for the agentic era.

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• AI09/28/2026@TechDesk

  Claude 3 Sonnet Released

  San Francisco, California, United StatesAnthropic

  

  Starts 03/04/2024CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better2.6 years agoThe model card carries no launch date, so the date is the launch post's: "Introducing the next generation of Claude, Mar 4, 2024" - "Opus and Sonnet are now available to use in claude.ai and the Claude API"; AWS's post of 04 MAR 2024 announces "the availability of Anthropic's^[1][3] Claude 3 Sonnet today in Amazon^[4] Bedrock".

  Anthropic releases Claude 3 Sonnet, the middle model of its new Claude 3 family, twice as fast as Claude 2.1 on most workloads at $3 per million input tokens and the model behind the free claude.ai.

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• AI09/30/2026@TechDesk

  Gemini 1.0 Released

  Googleplex, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, United StatesGoogle

  

  Starts 12/06/2023CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins82% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 82%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better2.8 years agoGoogle's launch post "Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model" is dated 6 December 2023 (Pichai and Hassabis announced it at a virtual press conference); Gemini Pro reached Bard on 13 December and Ultra followed on 8 February 2024.^[1]

  Google and DeepMind launch Gemini 1.0, a natively multimodal model in three sizes - Ultra, Pro and Nano - with Gemini Ultra the first model to beat human experts on the MMLU benchmark at 90.0%.

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