2026 in artificial intelligence
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The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in artificial intelligence, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred.
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January
- 5 January – Samsung Electronics announces plans to double its number of manufactured smartphones with Google Gemini-backed AI features, from 400 million in 2025, to 800 million in 2026.[1]
- 6 January – LMArena announces the closing of a $150 million Series A funding round, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to approximately $1.7 billion. The round was led by Felicis and UC Investments (University of California), with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, The House Fund, LDVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Laude Ventures.[2]
- 9 January – xAI limits use of image generation to paid users following the generation of sexually explicit deepfakes.[3][4]
- 10 January – Indonesia blocks access to Grok due to nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes.[5]
- 11 January – Malaysia blocks access to Grok due to nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes.[5]
- 16 January – The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) blocks Grok in the Philippines due to nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes.[6]
- 21 January – The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) lifts their ban on Grok.[7]
- 23 January – Malaysia lifts their ban on Grok.[8]
February
- 2 February
- 3 February – Ofcom launches an investigation into X.[11]
- 7 February – Kling AI releases Kling 3.0, their new text to video generator model.
- 9 February – OpenAI tests advertisements for ChatGPT in the United States.[12][13]
- 13 February
- GPT-4o is retired.[14]
- ByteDance releases Seedance 2.0, a new state of the art video generator model.
- 19 February – Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.1 Pro.
- 26 February – Google DeepMind releases Nano Banana 2.
March
- 3 March – Google DeepMind launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.
- 5 March – OpenAI launches GPT-5.4.
April
- 7 April – Anthropic launches Claude Mythos (Preview) only to 11 companies and organizations to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
- 16 April – Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7.
- 21 April – OpenAI launches GPT-Image-Gen-2, a new state of the art image generator model.
- 23 April – OpenAI launches GPT-5.5.
- 24 April – DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-V4.
- 26 April – OpenAI's video generation tool app Sora is shutdown publicly.