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Frontier releases, open and closed weights, benchmarks

7 cards on 3 tables, each drawn live from the table. Tables built 1 November 2026.

What is released

Notable AI models by year, and how open they are

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Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Source and method

Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date

Whose figures: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), Notable AI Models; figures are Epoch's, named as theirs.

Unit: models

The rows

Read from the same data file as the chart when this is opened.

84notable AI models released in 2026 (Epoch AI’s list)to 30 September 2026

Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date

Frontier models: training compute

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Source: Epoch AI, Frontier AI Models. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Source and method

Source: Epoch AI, Frontier AI Models. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date

Whose figures: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), Frontier AI Models; figures are Epoch's, named as theirs.

Unit: log10 FLOP

The rows

Read from the same data file as the chart when this is opened.

Who releases

The board: frontier models by organisation

Source: Epoch AI, Frontier AI Models. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Source and method

Source: Epoch AI, Frontier AI Models. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date

Whose figures: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), Frontier AI Models; figures are Epoch's, named as theirs.

Unit: log10 FLOP

The rows

Read from the same data file as the chart when this is opened.

The board: notable models by country

Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Source and method

Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date

Whose figures: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), Notable AI Models; figures are Epoch's, named as theirs.

Unit: models

The rows

Read from the same data file as the chart when this is opened.

Where models are trained

Models by training cloud vendor

Source: Epoch AI, All AI Models. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Source and method

Source: Epoch AI, All AI Models. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date

Whose figures: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), All AI Models; figures are Epoch's, named as theirs.

Unit: models

The rows

Read from the same data file as the chart when this is opened.

Models by training data centre

Source: Epoch AI, All AI Models. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Source and method

Source: Epoch AI, All AI Models. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date

Whose figures: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), All AI Models; figures are Epoch's, named as theirs.

Unit: models

The rows

Read from the same data file as the chart when this is opened.

The data behind it: the 3 tables this dashboard reads, their sources and their dates

Notable AI models: accessibility over time

The 1078 models Epoch AI lists as notable, one row per model, published 1950-07-02 to 2026-09-30. 827 of 1078 carry one of 7 accessibility labels; the other 251 read NULL.

Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models. Licence and standing: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), Notable AI Models; figures are Epoch's, named as theirs. The licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

One row is one row per model; 1078 rows; unit: models. Built from: epoch/notable-ai-models, collected 19 October 2026. Token Runner adapted this material: it was filtered, joined and added up; the source does not endorse Token Runner or this use.

Frontier AI models: the release tape

The 138 models Epoch AI lists as frontier models, one row per model, published 1950-07-02 to 2026-09-03. 127 of 138 carry a training compute figure and 75 of 138 carry an accessibility label; the rest read NULL.

Source: Epoch AI, Frontier AI Models. Licence and standing: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), Frontier AI Models; figures are Epoch's, named as theirs. The licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

One row is one row per model; 138 rows; unit: log10 FLOP. Built from: epoch/frontier-ai-models, collected 19 October 2026. Token Runner adapted this material: it was filtered, joined and added up; the source does not endorse Token Runner or this use.

Where AI models are trained

Coverage is sparse: of the 3627 models in Epoch AI's file, 68 fill the training data centre cell and 54 name a training cloud vendor; 100 fill at least one and are the rows here (22 fill both), published 2019-02-09 to 2026-04-05. The other 3527 models say nothing about a site and are not in this table. The data centre cell is free text (36 different entries) and some entries are notes rather than site names.

Source: Epoch AI, All AI Models. Licence and standing: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), All AI Models; figures are Epoch's, named as theirs. The licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

One row is one row per model that fills a training data centre or a training cloud vendor; 100 rows; unit: models. Built from: epoch/all-ai-models, collected 19 October 2026. Token Runner adapted this material: it was filtered, joined and added up; the source does not endorse Token Runner or this use.

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