218 models tracked

The Tree of Life
for AI Models

Explore the complete evolutionary lineage of every major large language model — from the 2017 Transformer paper to today's frontier models.

🤖218Frontier Models

🧬35Model Families

📄50Research Papers

💎27Hardware Milestones

Model Family Trees

Explore the lineage of each frontier AI model family — from their first release through every major iteration.

Trace the Full History

From backpropagation in 1986 through the Transformer revolution to today's agentic frontier models — see how every breakthrough connects.

The Tree of Lifefor AI Models

Model Family Trees

OpenAI GPT

OpenAI o-series

Anthropic Claude

Google PaLM

Google Gemini

Meta LLaMA

Mistral AI

xAI Grok

Cohere Command

Microsoft Phi

DeepSeek

Alibaba Qwen

Google Gemma

TII Falcon

Amazon Nova

Community / Uncensored

Image Generation

Stability AI

Midjourney

NVIDIA Nemotron

Coding Tools

IBM

Foundational

01.AI Yi

Apple

AI21 Labs

Allen AI

Inflection AI

Search / RAG

Music Generation

Speech / Voice

Chinese LLMs

Embedding Models

Safety / Guardrails

Robotics / Embodied

Trace the Full History

The Tree of Life
for AI Models