Release dates and context windows of representative models from major providers.
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Provider Model Released Context window Description
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna 2026-07-09 1050K The fastest and cheapest GPT-5.6 tier (Luna), for high-throughput chat and lightweight tasks.
xAI Grok-4.5 2026-07-08 500K A mid-to-late 4.x flagship with strong coding and text Arena results. Context and reasoning efficiency kept improving.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 2026-06-30 1M The Claude 5 balanced tier, balancing speed and intelligence. Adaptive thinking is on by default, for most agents and knowledge work.
Zhipu GLM GLM-5.2 2026-06-16 1M Context expanded to 1 million. Adds IndexShare, MTP, and reasoning-effort control. MIT-licensed.
Kimi Kimi K2.7 Code 2026-06-12 256K A thinking-mode coding model for software engineering. Thinking only, optimized for repo-scale long tasks.
Anthropic Claude Fable 5 2026-06-09 1M The first Mythos-class high-end model opened to regular users. Aimed at ultra-long-horizon agents and the strongest reasoning, with 1M context.
Qwen Qwen3.7-Plus 2026-06-01 1M The 3.7 balanced hosted tier. 1 million context, covering office production and long-horizon agents.
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 2026-05-28 1M The closing 4.x flagship, continuing to beat 4.7 on coding, agent skills, reasoning, and knowledge work.
Qwen Qwen3.7-Max 2026-05-20 1M The next Max-series flagship. Thinking is on by default, with 1 million context. Later snapshots added visual understanding.
Gemini Gemini 3.5 Flash 2026-05-01 1048576 The 3.5 high-speed tier, for low-latency multimodal apps. Context is about 1049K.
DeepSeek DeepSeek-V4 Preview 2026-04-24 1M A V4 preview with 1 million context by default. Split into Pro and Flash MoE tiers, with open weights.
OpenAI GPT-5.5 2026-04-23 1M The next default flagship for ChatGPT and Codex. Instant became the full default on May 5, with fewer hallucinations and better personalization.
Kimi Kimi K2.6 2026-04-21 256K A general multimodal K2 iteration with stronger long-horizon coding and agent workflows. It was the recommended model before K3.
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 2026-04-16 1M A broadly released flagship for complex reasoning and long-horizon coding. Higher visual resolution, with Claude Design launched at the same time.
Qwen Qwen3.6 2026-04-16 262144 Built on 3.5 with stronger stability and real-world coding. Open-sourced sizes such as 35B-A3B and 27B.
Zhipu GLM GLM-5.1 2026-04-07 200K Aimed at extra-long tasks, strategy correction, and bug fixing. Officially, agents can run for hours.
OpenAI GPT-5.4 mini 2026-03-17 1M Brings GPT-5.4-class capability down to a mid-small model. Fits high-concurrency agents and tool calling.
OpenAI GPT-5.4 nano 2026-03-17 1M The smallest GPT-5.4 size. Keeps million-token context and fits classification, routing, and light tool calling.
OpenAI GPT-5.4 2026-03-05 1M The first mainline native computer-use model. API/Codex offer million-token context and tool search, with better token efficiency than GPT-5.2.
xAI Grok-4.20 2026-02-17 256K A multi-agent preview generation. Default 256K, expandable to 2M. Later Beta 2 strengthened instruction following and reduced hallucinations.

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Release dates and context windows are compiled from public sources. Limits can differ by platform, plan, or preview API. Please refer to each provider's official documentation.
The table above is sorted by release date in descending order.