AI Pro League
Season Zero
New model releases and open-weight drops that have actually been announced, teased or credibly reported.
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
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
DeepSeek · Model
Announced No date given No date given
DeepSeek has said a V4.1-Pro is coming; it has given no date and no specs. (V4.1-Flash shipped 10 Sep 2026.) Anything beyond that sentence — including everything labelled 'R2' — is unverified.
Why this label: Company statement that V4.1-Pro is coming; no date or specs published.
Sources: DecodeTheFuture status tracker, checked against DeepSeek's official docs
Checked Oct 14, 2026
Google DeepMind · Model
Reported Before end of 2026 (reported); no dates No date given
Gemini 4 Argon already shipped (30 Sep 2026) — what remains upcoming is the rest of the family. Reporting says DeepMind is racing to close a measured gap to Claude Opus 5.5 before 2026 ends; no tier dates exist.
Figures as reported — see sources.
Why this label: The Information reporting via trade coverage; Google has not confirmed dates.
An unconfirmed 'Gemini 4 Pro' arena checkpoint is Rumour Corner material only.
Sources: Tech Insider · explainx
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
Moonshot AI · Model
Reported No window reported No date given
Bloomberg reports Moonshot is seeking additional Nvidia Blackwell chips specifically to train its next-generation Kimi K4 (K3 shipped Jul 2026). Chip-sourcing reporting, not a product announcement — no date, no specs.
Figures as reported — see sources.
Why this label: Bloomberg reporting on chip sourcing for K4 training; no company announcement.
Sources: Bloomberg via MLQ
Checked Oct 14, 2026
Meta (Superintelligence Labs) · Model
Announced No date given No date given
Meta says an open-weights Muse Spark release is coming; it has not shipped. Muse is Meta's closed frontier line (Spark 1.3 current) that replaced Llama as the flagship strategy — an open Muse would be Meta's first open release of the new era.
Why this label: Meta statement that an open-weights Muse Spark release is coming.
Sources: Mungomash — Llama/Muse version tracker
Checked Oct 14, 2026