Model Radar — who lands next

1. ChatGPT-5.6 — OpenAI · Sol · Terra · Luna — all three live · LIVE — dropped 2026-07-09
2. Grok 4.5 — SpaceXAI · live — dropped Thursday, Jul 9 · LIVE — dropped 2026-07-09
3. Muse Spark 1.1 — Meta · live — surprise drop Jul 9, zero leak trail · LIVE — dropped 2026-07-09
4. Kimi K3 — Moonshot AI · the open-weight heavyweight's next act · LIVE — dropped 2026-07-17
5. Claude Opus 5 — Anthropic · Released — confirmed in the OpenRouter model registry. · LIVE — dropped 2026-07-24
6. Qwen 4.0 Max — Alibaba · the next numbered flagship from China's top lab · 100% Alibaba top CN lab
7. GPT-6 — OpenAI · the next numbered generation · 89% by Dec 31
8. DeepSeek V5 — DeepSeek · the next open flagship — V4 GA lands first · 81% V4 GA by Jul 24
9. Fable 5.1 — Anthropic · the next mythos-class model · 78% by Sep 30
10. Fable 6 — Anthropic · the next Mythos-class generation · 78% by Sep 30 (any mythos-class)
11. Grok 5 — SpaceXAI · the compute-gated flagship · 78% by Dec 31
12. MiniMax M4 — MiniMax · the next M, promised for H2 · 78% new-gen M promised for H2 2026
13. Gemini 3.5 Pro — Google · announced at I/O, stuck in preview · 77% by Jul 31
14. GLM-6 — Zhipu / Z.ai · the next major GLM · 44% GLM-6 by Oct 31
15. Mistral Large 4 — Mistral · Europe's flagship line, quiet since December · 22% Large 4 by Sep 30
16. Gemini 4 — Google · the next Gemini generation · 2% by Jul 31
17. o4 — OpenAI · reasoning track · rumored