Release timeline of major AI models since 2022. Read the rhythm to position early: the 2 weeks around a new model release are a traffic bonus window for related tool sites and content.
Image generation/editing model; API price cut in half (from $0.0336/image).
Opportunity: AI retouch, product-photo and ID-photo tools should integrate now — half the cost is pure margin.1M-token context; reasoning efficiency improved again.
Opportunity: long-document tools (papers/contracts/financial reports) get a cost drop.1-trillion-parameter MoE open-source code model; 30% fewer reasoning tokens.
Opportunity: open-source = self-deployable; code-agent startup costs drop sharply.The most reliable flagship model, lowest hallucination rate.
Opportunity: for accuracy-sensitive scenarios (legal/medical assistance), use this first.Open-source agent orchestration: 300 parallel sub-agents.
Opportunity: agent-swarm architecture — a new approach to multi-step automation tasks.Unified reasoning model; flagship refresh.
Opportunity: every flagship refresh pushes old-model prices down — wrapper-site costs fall with them.The king of code and the king of video released in the same month.
Opportunity: Veo 3 ships native audio — AI short dramas and ad creatives enter a new phase.Open-source multimodal flagship.
Opportunity: every step stronger open models get, the more competitive self-hosted solutions become.Long-context reasoning model.
Opportunity: million-token context — whole-book/whole-library Q&A products take off.Larger-scale pretraining meets real-time information.
Opportunity: Grok's real-time X data — a new data source for sentiment/trending tools.Open-source reasoning model that shattered costs; developers worldwide rejoiced.
Opportunity: the starting point of zero-cost reasoning — the lowest entry barrier for AI-app startups in history.The most crowded month in history: reasoning, video and open-source all blooming.
Opportunity: Sora's launch = year one of AI video; the positioning moment for video-tool builders.The debut of slow-thinking reasoning models.
Opportunity: for math/code/planning tasks, reasoning models are a qualitative leap.Code capability topped the charts; developer word-of-mouth went legendary.
Opportunity: the fuel behind the explosion of AI coding tools like Cursor.Multimodal real-time interaction; voice latency slashed.
Opportunity: real-time voice interaction — the starting point for AI companions and speaking coaches.The strongest open model; usability leapt forward.
Opportunity: the self-hosting wave — the answer for privacy-sensitive scenarios.Opus beat GPT-4 on multiple benchmarks.
Opportunity: for long-document work, the Claude family has always been the first choice.Million-token context and text-to-video released to shock and awe.
Opportunity: the Sora preview clips spread internet-wide — the textbook case of demo-as-marketing.Multimodal flagship; the starting point of the AI-startup explosion.
Opportunity: the first wave of AI apps like Jasper/Copy.ai rode the bonus.Where it all began. 1M users in 5 days; it rewrote the internet.
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