Release dates and context windows of representative models from major providers.
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Provider Model Released Context window Description
Zhipu GLM GLM-4 2024-01-16 128K Zhipu's API flagship with 128K context. All Tools can automatically choose browsing, Python, images, and custom functions.
Gemini Gemini 1.0 Pro 2023-12-06 32768 Google's first public Gemini generation, natively multimodal. Pro targeted developers and the Bard upgrade.
Qwen Qwen-72B 2023-11-30 32768 An early large open-source flagship. Chinese, English, and long-text ability were clearly stronger than 7B.
DeepSeek DeepSeek LLM 2023-11-29 4096 7B/67B general dense models. DeepSeek's first base as it moved from code into general chat.
Anthropic Claude 2.1 2023-11-21 200K Doubled context to 200K tokens, reduced long-document hallucinations, and improved tool-use reliability.
OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo 2023-11-06 128K Announced at the first DevDay with 128K context, JSON Mode, and lower pricing. The Assistants API and GPTs launched alongside it.
xAI Grok-1 2023-11-03 8192 xAI's first chat model opened to X Premium users. In March 2024 it open-sourced 314B MoE weights.
DeepSeek DeepSeek Coder 2023-11-02 16384 DeepSeek's first public model, focused on code completion and repo understanding. It started the later Coder line.
Zhipu GLM ChatGLM3-6B 2023-10-27 32768 Added function calling, a code interpreter, and agent tasks. Open-source small models started to gain tool use.
Kimi Kimi Chat 2023-10-09 128K Moonshot's first long-context assistant, known for reading very long documents. In March 2024 it expanded further to about 2 million Chinese characters.
Qwen Qwen-7B 2023-08-03 8192 The starting point of Qwen open source. A 7B dense model that led the later Qwen open-source family.
Anthropic Claude 2 2023-07-11 100K Brought context to 100K tokens. Writing and coding were clearly stronger than Claude 1, and it was an early flagship for long-document analysis.
Zhipu GLM ChatGLM2-6B 2023-06-25 32768 Open-source context rose from 2K to 32K, with chat quality and inference efficiency both improved.
OpenAI GPT-4 2023-03-14 8192 OpenAI's first large-scale multimodal flagship. Accepts text and image input, with reasoning and instruction following clearly better than GPT-3.5. Offered 8K and 32K context at launch.
OpenAI GPT-4-32K 2023-03-14 32768 The 32K-context version of GPT-4 for longer documents and multi-turn complex tasks. Later replaced by long-context models such as GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o.
Anthropic Claude 1 2023-03-14 9K Anthropic's first public chat model, emphasizing Constitutional AI safety alignment. A faster Claude Instant shipped at the same time.
Zhipu GLM ChatGLM-6B 2023-03-14 2048 A bilingual Chinese-English chat model that can run on consumer GPUs. It moved GLM from papers into a usable product.
OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo 2023-03-01 4096 The first Chat Completions API chat model and a sibling of early ChatGPT. Low cost and low latency, suited to everyday conversation and simple tasks.

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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.