New AI Models – August 2026

18 models released in August 2026.

Release	Model	Family	Researcher	Context	Parameters
2026-08-31	TimesFM-3 Open	TimesFM	Google	—	330M
2026-08-31	Spark X2.5 4B OpenReasoning	Spark X2.5	iFLYTEK Developer	1.05m	4B
2026-08-31	Spark X2.5 1.7B OpenReasoning	Spark X2.5	iFLYTEK Developer	1.05m	1.7B
2026-08-28	Hunyuan Hy4 Preview OpenReasoning	Hunyuan	Tencent AI Lab	1.05m	770B (49B active)
2026-08-27	Sonic 3.6	Cartesia	Cartesia	—	—
2026-08-27	Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash VisionVideo	Gemini Omni	Google DeepMind	1.05m	—
2026-08-27	Cohere Parse v5.0 Vision	Cohere Parse	Cohere	8k	2.3B
2026-08-26	GLM-5.3-Flash OpenReasoningVision	GLM-5	Zhipu AI	1m	320B total, 18B active
2026-08-26	Qwen3.8-Flash-Next OpenReasoningVision	Qwen3.8	Alibaba	262k	125B total, 6B active (+51B n-gram embedding, 4B MTP)
2026-08-26	Gemini 3.5 Transcribe	Gemini 3.5	Google DeepMind	98k	—
2026-08-21	DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp ReasoningVision	DeepSeek V4	DeepSeek	1m	—
2026-08-17	Qwen3.8-27B OpenReasoningVision	Qwen3.8	Alibaba	1m	27B
2026-08-14	GLM-5.3 Reasoning	GLM-5	Zhipu AI	1m	—
2026-08-13	Gemini 3.7 Flash ReasoningVisionVideo	Gemini 3.7	Google DeepMind	1.05m	—
2026-08-12	Grok 4.6 ReasoningVision	Grok 4	xAI	500k	—
2026-08-10	Muse Glimmer OpenReasoningVision	Muse	AI at Meta	131k	30B
2026-08-05	Muse Spark 1.2 ReasoningVisionVideo	Muse	AI at Meta	1.05m	—
2026-08-03	Qwen3.8-Max OpenReasoningVision	Qwen3.8	Alibaba	1m	2.4T total, 95B active