august 2026: 8 frontier models dropping this month – grok, gemini, gpt astra, and more

we'll have 8 models released by the end of august. 3 of them are in the next 2 weeks. the closest is tomorrow

dated:

• aug 7 – grok 4.6 (@xai)
• aug 11 – gemini 3.5 pro (@Google)
• aug 14 – gpt astra (@OpenAI)

no date, rumored this month:

• grok 4.7 (@xai) – the 2.1t model, "a few weeks" after 4.6
• fable 5.1 (@AnthropicAI)
• glm 5.5 (@Zai_org)
• kimi k3.1 (@Kimi_Moonshot)
• composer 3 (@cursor_ai) – 1.5t, cursor's first full pretrain