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Season Zero
Everything the AI industry has actually said is coming — labelled by how solid it is. 37 tracked · 20 announced · 3 teased · 9 reported · 5 frontiers in progress · data checked Oct 14, 2026.
How to read the labels
OpenAI · Model
Announced Rolling out from Oct 2026; no GA date
Astra, OpenAI's top-tier GPT-6 model, launched limited to a set of organisations; OpenAI's announcement describes planned expansion to paid tiers and API access. No GA date has been given.
Why this label: OpenAI's own GPT-6 announcement describes the planned expansion.
Sources: dev.to — rollout breakdown · explainx — on the 6.1 cancellation
Checked Oct 14, 2026
Microsoft · Hardware
Announced Unveiled Oct 2026; Azure deployment ramp through 2027
Microsoft's third custom AI inference chip (2nm-class compute chiplets, 288GB HBM4, ~950W) has just been unveiled (Oct 2026); the upcoming part is fleet deployment across Azure to serve Copilot/OpenAI workloads.
Why this label: Microsoft unveiling, as covered by RCR Tech.
Sources: RCR Tech
Checked Oct 14, 2026
Mistral AI · Model
Announced 27 Oct 2026 (reports vary 27-31 Oct)
The 1.05T-parameter flagship ('Le Chonk', ~49B active, 1M context) shipped as an API preview on 6 Oct 2026; the downloadable open weights land after a ~3-week security red-team period. Licence terms are not yet published.
Why this label: Company API preview shipped 6 Oct 2026; weights date from launch coverage.
Check the licence terms on release day — they were not published in advance.
Sources: AI News — launch coverage · CoderCops analysis
Checked Oct 14, 2026
Anthropic · Ecosystem
Reported November 2026 (reported)
Confidential S-1 filed 1 Jun 2026 (confirmed); Reuters/FT have reviewed the draft; WSJ reports advisers moved the listing to November 2026, after the US midterms. No public S-1 on EDGAR as of 13 Oct 2026 — that filing is the next hard milestone.
Reported valuation targets (up to ~$2T) are reported, not set.
Figures as reported — see sources.
Why this label: WSJ/Reuters/FT reporting on a confirmed confidential filing; the company has not announced a date.
Sources: AITechSafar timeline · DecodeTheFuture S-1 tracker
Checked Oct 14, 2026
xAI (SpaceXAI) · Build-out
Announced Next phase expected end-2026 (company S-1)
SpaceX's S-1 expects Colossus II's next phase to add at least 220,000 additional GB300 processors and over 400 additional megawatts (company forward-looking statement). Musk's gigawatt totals are his claims and are labelled as such.
Also announced as a plan: Terafab, the Tesla-SpaceX chip fab — no timeline published.
Why this label: Split label: the phase is announced in SpaceX's S-1; the gigawatt totals are teased exec claims.
Gigawatt totals are Musk's claims, labelled as such — the S-1 figures are the sourced floor.
Sources: TSN — S-1 roadmap review
Checked Oct 14, 2026
OpenAI / Oracle / SoftBank · Build-out
Announced Phases late 2026 through 2029
The multi-site US programme beyond Abilene: Shackelford County early buildings late 2026-early 2027, Lordstown OH operational 2026, Wisconsin and Michigan as 2028 stories; programme figure >9 GW by 2029 against the $500B headline.
The proposed +600 MW Abilene expansion was cancelled in Mar 2026 — see the cancellation record.
Figures as reported — see sources.
Why this label: Programme announced by OpenAI/Oracle/SoftBank; schedule detail per Epoch AI tracking.
Sources: Epoch AI schedule via research compilation · OpenAI five-sites announcement, extracted · Mint/Reuters — on the Abilene cap
Checked Oct 14, 2026
NVIDIA · Hardware
Announced H2 2027
NVIDIA's published roadmap: 576-GPU racks, ~15 exaFLOPS FP4, HBM4e, NVLink 7, ~600 kW per rack. Announced at GTC 2025 and reaffirmed since — a roadmap commitment, not a shipping product.
Figures as reported — see sources.
Why this label: NVIDIA's published roadmap (GTC 2025, reaffirmed).
Sources: ARN — GTC roadmap coverage
Checked Oct 14, 2026
Anthropic · Ecosystem
Reported November 2026 (reported)
Confidential S-1 filed 1 Jun 2026 (confirmed); Reuters/FT have reviewed the draft; WSJ reports advisers moved the listing to November 2026, after the US midterms. No public S-1 on EDGAR as of 13 Oct 2026 — that filing is the next hard milestone.
Reported valuation targets (up to ~$2T) are reported, not set.
Figures as reported — see sources.
Why this label: WSJ/Reuters/FT reporting on a confirmed confidential filing; the company has not announced a date.
Sources: AITechSafar timeline · DecodeTheFuture S-1 tracker
Checked Oct 14, 2026
Tesla · Robotics
Reported End of 2027 (conditional)
Musk told BlackRock's Larry Fink at Davos (Jan 2026) Tesla expects to sell Optimus to the public by end of 2027, only when confident in very high reliability and safety — his words make the date conditional. Internal factory deployment through 2026 is the nearer milestone.
Figures as reported — see sources.
Why this label: Musk's Davos statement as reported; the date is explicitly quality-gated.
Sources: TechRepublic · Morningstar / MarketWatch
Checked Oct 14, 2026
xAI (SpaceXAI) · Model
Teased Company claim: 'before the end of this year' (Musk, 4 Aug 2026) — a claim, not a date No date given
Confirmed in training since Jan 2026 (company statement, repeated in SpaceX's S-1, which says it is training at Colossus II). No official release date, specs or benchmarks. Circulating spec figures are unconfirmed — see the Rumour Corner.
Why this label: Company statement + S-1 confirm training; the date is an exec claim only.
Treat every Grok 5 date and spec as a claim until xAI publishes them.
Sources: TSN — S-1 and statements review · ScriptByAI — Grok timeline
Checked Oct 14, 2026
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