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AI Model Releases by Lab

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About This MicroSim

This horizontal bar chart ranks the 11 frontier AI labs tracked by AI Release Tracker — OpenAI, Mistral, Google, Anthropic, Qwen, DeepSeek, SpaceXAI, Meta, Z.ai, Moonshot AI, and NVIDIA — by their total major model releases since November 2022.

It answers a simple but important org-impact question: of the 249 major releases tracked, who is actually shipping the most? OpenAI leads with 44, but the next several labs are close behind, and no single lab accounts for even a fifth of all tracked releases.

How to Use

Hover over any bar to see its exact count and share of all tracked releases.

Iframe Embed Code

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Updating the Data

Chart values live in a dataset shared by six MicroSims: ../ai-release-data/data.json. This chart reads the labTotals array — update a lab's value there, or add a new lab entry (and to meta.labs) as the tracked lab list grows. See ../ai-release-data/README.md for the full schema.

These MicroSims share the same dataset:

Lesson Plan

Grade Level

Adult professional / executive education (organizational AI-tracking course)

Duration

5-10 minutes

Prerequisites

None.

Activities

  1. Exploration (3 min): Have learners rank the top 3 labs by release count before looking, then compare to the chart.
  2. Guided Discussion (3 min): Discuss why release count is an imperfect proxy for capability leadership (it says nothing about model quality or adoption).
  3. Assessment (3 min): Ask learners to name one other metric that would complement this leaderboard for judging lab competitiveness.

Assessment

Learners should be able to articulate at least one limitation of using raw release counts as a leadership indicator.

References

  1. AI Release Tracker — Analytics — source of the underlying release-count data.
  2. Chart.js Documentation — charting library used to build this MicroSim.