Models are considered announced only if the announcements are made through some official channels. An announcement need not be accompanied by a release to count.
The AI announced must have a language output modality, ie it must be a language model. A model that only generates images or videos, or a robotic model, would not count.
See also:
Claude 5 (Anthropic) release date
Gemini 3.5 (Google) release date
Gemini 4.0 (Google) release date
R2 / V4-Thinking (DeepSeek) release date
Qwen 4 (Alibaba Qwen) release date
Kimi K3 (Moonshot) release date
Mistral 4 (Mistral) release date
OpenAI's next "GPT-OSS" release date
New image / video "Mango" model (Meta) release date
'Avocado' LLM (Meta) release date
Thinking Machines' first LLM announcement date (this market)