AI Hype Tracker Signal vs noise

MODELS · 19

Models

Specific AI models the site tracks, grouped by class. Each hub aggregates release claims, observed behavior, and related essays.

Frontier LLMs · 8

GPT-5

*Late-Gen5 OpenAI flagship pitched as a packaged systems upgrade rather than a single headline benchmark.*
Shipped by openai May 15, 2026 2 essays 7 claims

GPT-5.5

OpenAI's current frontier flagship — released April 2026
Shipped by openai Apr 23, 2026 0 essays 0 claims

Claude Mythos Preview

Anthropic's restricted-access April-2026 model that found thousands of zero-days
Shipped by anthropic Apr 15, 2026 0 essays 1 claims

Claude Opus 4 (x)

*Anthropic flagship-oriented Opus line refresh pitched for highest-stakes analysis, coding, and agentic workflows.*
Shipped by anthropic May 22, 2025 2 essays 2 claims

Grok 3

*xAI flagship advertised with aggressive timelines and tight coupling to the X real-time corpus.*
Shipped by xai Feb 17, 2025 1 essays 0 claims

Gemini 2.x

*Google DeepMind multimodal Gemini generation integrated across Android, Workspace, and Vertex-class APIs.*
Shipped by google-deepmind Feb 5, 2025 1 essays 5 claims

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

*Anthropic mid-2024 workhorse tuned for coding and long-context tasks at competitive latency.*
Shipped by anthropic Jun 21, 2024 4 essays 2 claims

GPT-4

*Multimodal generalist that reset 2023 expectations for instruction-following and tool use at scale.*
Shipped by openai Mar 14, 2023 2 essays 5 claims

Reasoning LLMs · 3

OpenAI o3

*Successorship in the o-series pitched toward harder STEM and competition-style evaluations.*
Shipped by openai Apr 16, 2025 0 essays 2 claims

DeepSeek R1

*MIT-licensed reasoning model associated with RL-style training narratives and sharp inference-price attention.*
Shipped by deepseek Jan 20, 2025 1 essays 1 claims

OpenAI o1

*Reasoning-optimized model family emphasizing private chain-of-thought style compute at inference time.*
Shipped by openai Dec 5, 2024 1 essays 0 claims

Open-Weight LLMs · 8

DeepSeek V4-Pro

1.6-trillion-parameter preview that claims to 'close the gap' with frontier closed models — April 2026
Shipped by deepseek Apr 24, 2026 0 essays 0 claims

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek's late-2025 open-weight flagship, first to integrate thinking into tool-use
Shipped by deepseek Dec 1, 2025 0 essays 0 claims

Llama 4

*Later Meta open-weights tranche extending context and multimodal baselines under the Llama brand.*
Shipped by meta-ai Apr 5, 2025 1 essays 1 claims

DeepSeek V3

*Base-model generation preceding R1, cited in pricing shocks and replication attempts on MoE architectures.*
Shipped by deepseek Dec 26, 2024 2 essays 1 claims

Gemma 2

*Google DeepMind open-weights line targeting responsible reuse benchmarks with aggressive size tiers.*
Shipped by google-deepmind Jun 27, 2024 0 essays 0 claims

Llama 3

*Meta’s 2024 open-weights family that re-baselined permissive licensing competition for mid-scale models.*
Shipped by meta-ai Apr 18, 2024 5 essays 0 claims

Command R+

*Cohere retrieval-focused enterprise model emphasizing tool use and grounded business workflows.*
Shipped by cohere Apr 4, 2024 0 essays 1 claims

Mistral Large

*Mistral’s enterprise-oriented flagship text model aimed at EU procurement tables and competitive API pricing.*
Shipped by mistral Feb 26, 2024 1 essays 0 claims