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- The firmest dates are deadlines: Claude Sonnet 4.5 and OpenAI's Agent Builder shut down November 30, Gemini 4 Argon's API price doubles to $4/$20 on December 1, and OpenAI retires GPT-5 and o3 snapshots on December 11, per the companies' docs checked October 20, 2026.
- Events: Microsoft Ignite runs November 17–20 in San Francisco, AWS re:Invent November 30–December 4 in Las Vegas, and NeurIPS 2026 December 8–13 across Sydney, Atlanta and Paris. The EU AI Act's new bans and a marking deadline land December 2.
- No frontier lab has announced a dated model launch for November or December. The Anthropic IPO timing (marketing from the week of November 9) is Bloomberg's reporting, not a company announcement.
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Looking for upcoming AI launches in November 2026? The honest answer is that the dates you can count on are mostly deadlines, not debuts. As of October 20, 2026, no major lab in frontier models has announced a dated model launch for November or December. What is on the calendar: model retirements, price increases, an EU AI Act deadline, three big conferences, and a reported Anthropic IPO window.
This calendar lists only items with a source: a company page, an official document or a named news report, each re-checked October 20, 2026. Each line says whether the date is confirmed or reported, and links to our coverage. For the news of October 12–18, see The Week in AI #4.
The short version
- Confirmed deadlines: Claude Sonnet 4.5 and OpenAI's Agent Builder, Evals and Prompts API shut down November 30. Gemini 4 Argon's API price doubles December 1. OpenAI retires its GPT-5 and o3 snapshots December 11.
- Confirmed events: Microsoft Ignite (November 17–20), AWS re:Invent (November 30–December 4) and NeurIPS 2026 (December 8–13, in three cities).
- Policy: Anthropic's new usage policy takes effect November 12. The EU AI Act's new bans and its content-marking grace period both hit December 2.
- Reported only: Anthropic's IPO marketing could start the week of November 9 (Bloomberg). Character.AI expects its asset sale to finish by late November or early December.
- Not announced: GPT-7 and Claude 6. See what OpenAI has said and what Anthropic has said.
What's still due in late October?
A few dates fall just before the window and set it up:
| Date | What | Status | Source | Our story |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 23 | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4 GB) open-weight release | Confirmed (Nvidia) | NVIDIA blog | Nemotron 3.5 |
| October 23 | OpenAI shuts down legacy API snapshots, including gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, o1 and o4-mini | Confirmed (OpenAI) | OpenAI deprecations page | — |
| October 23 | Meta Adventurer AI glasses go on sale, from $249 | Confirmed (Meta) | Meta Newsroom | Upcoming AI glasses |
| October 30 | Meta's updated Commercial Terms take effect | Confirmed (Meta; restated by the News/Media Alliance) | News/Media Alliance, Meta preview terms | Meta's commercial terms |
| October 30 | Apple HomePod mini 2 in stores, $149 | Confirmed (Apple) | Apple Newsroom | HomeView and HomePod mini 2 |
| October 31 | OpenAI Evals become read-only | Confirmed (OpenAI) | OpenAI deprecations page | — |
| November 1, 00:00 Beijing time (October 31, 16:00 UTC) | Free DeepSeek Search and Fetch calls through Harness, Claude Code and Codex end; $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests after that | Confirmed (DeepSeek) | DeepSeek API docs | AI web search APIs compared |
Table 1Every late-October date here is confirmed by the company involved; DeepSeek's November 1 cutoff falls on October 31 in UTC.
Last verified: October 20, 2026
What's happening in November 2026?
| Date | What | Status | Source | Our story |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week of November 9 | Anthropic could begin formal IPO marketing; trading targeted before Thanksgiving (November 26), listing no later than year-end | Reported (Bloomberg, October 1 and 14) | Yahoo Finance summaries of Bloomberg | Anthropic IPO explained |
| November 12 | Anthropic's 2026 Usage Policy takes effect, including the rule against "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its models | Confirmed (Anthropic) | Anthropic Usage Policy | Anthropic's new usage rule |
| November 12 | PostgreSQL 19 RC2 and scheduled minor releases | Confirmed (PostgreSQL release team) | pgsql-hackers, October 10 | Postgres 19 delayed |
| November 13 | Apple HomeView ($299) available, outside the EU | Confirmed (Apple) | Apple Newsroom | HomeView |
| November 17–20 | Microsoft Ignite 2026, San Francisco and online (keynote November 17 at Chase Center) | Confirmed (Microsoft) | Microsoft Ignite site; Microsoft Security blog | — |
| November 19 | PostgreSQL 19 general availability | Confirmed (PostgreSQL release team) | pgsql-hackers, October 10 | Postgres 19 delayed |
| Late November–early December | Character.AI expects its court-supervised asset sale to finish | Company statement | Character.AI blog (October 12) | Character.AI bankruptcy |
| November 30 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 retires from the Claude API | Confirmed (Anthropic) | Claude model deprecations page | Claude 6 release date |
| November 30 | OpenAI shuts down Agent Builder, the Evals dashboard and API, and the v1/prompts API | Confirmed (OpenAI) | OpenAI deprecations page | — |
| About November 20 or November 30 | San Francisco's 45-day data center moratorium runs out unless the Board of Supervisors extends it | Calculated, and reports differ on the start: 45 days from October 6 (Mission Local and Bay City News reported it took effect on passage) is November 20; 45 days from the October 16 signing is November 30. The city hasn't published an end date | SF Board of Supervisors file 261021; San Francisco Standard | SF moratorium |
| November 30–December 4 | AWS re:Invent 2026, Las Vegas | Confirmed (AWS) | AWS re:Invent site | — |
Table 2Most November dates are confirmed; the Anthropic IPO window is Bloomberg's reporting, Character.AI's sale timing is the company's expectation, and the San Francisco date is calculated.
Last verified: October 20, 2026
Two notes on November. The Anthropic IPO dates come from people Bloomberg spoke to, who said plans are fluid; Anthropic hasn't announced a date, a price or an exchange, and as of our October 20 check no public S-1 was on the SEC's EDGAR system. And Character.AI itself only says the sale is expected to finish "by the end of November or perhaps early December 2026," according to its October 12 blog post.
What's happening in December 2026?
| Date | What | Status | Source | Our story |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1 | Gemini 4 Argon API price rises from $2/$10 to $4/$20 per million input/output tokens (Batch, Flex and Priority tiers also double) | Confirmed (Google) | Gemini API pricing page | Gemini 4 Argon GA, Argon vs Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 |
| December 1 | OpenAI shuts down gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest | Confirmed (OpenAI) | OpenAI deprecations page | — |
| December 2 | EU AI Act: new bans on AI that generates non-consensual intimate imagery or child sexual abuse material; generative AI systems already on the market before August 2, 2026 must meet the Article 50(2) machine-readable marking rule | Confirmed (European Commission) | European Commission AI Act Service Desk timeline; Reed Smith | EU AI Act now, ChatGPT's EU watermark |
| December 8–13 | NeurIPS 2026: main conference December 8–10 in Sydney and December 9–11 in Paris and Atlanta, with workshops through December 13 | Confirmed (NeurIPS) | NeurIPS 2026 dates page | — |
| December 11 | OpenAI shuts down gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, gpt-5-pro, o3 and o3-pro snapshots | Confirmed (OpenAI) | OpenAI deprecations page | GPT-7 release date |
| December 31 | Gemini 3.8 Flash promotional price ($0.75/$3.75) ends; $1.50/$7.50 from January 1, 2027 | Confirmed (Google) | Gemini API pricing page | Cheap, fast AI models compared |
Table 3Every December date is confirmed, led by Gemini 4 Argon's price doubling on December 1 and the EU AI Act deadline on December 2.
Last verified: October 20, 2026
Which AI models are launching in November and December?
None with an announced date. As of October 20, 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google haven't published a release date for any new frontier model in this window:
- OpenAI hasn't announced GPT-7. The Information reported on October 13 that OpenAI is fixing safety issues before shipping its next flagship, without a date. Details are in our GPT-7 explainer.
- Anthropic hasn't announced Claude 6. Reuters reported on September 18 that it is considering a new model to counter GPT-6 Astra. A Fable 5.5 listing briefly appeared in Azure's model catalog, according to the leak-tracking site TestingCatalog, but Anthropic hasn't confirmed it. See our Claude 6 explainer.
- Google made Gemini 4 Argon generally available on October 13. Its next announced change is the December 1 price rise, not a new model.
The one dated open-weight release we found is Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B on October 23.
What did we leave off, and why?
- Rumored model dates from leak accounts, "release date" pages and betting markets. None cites a company announcement.
- Retirements with only a "not sooner than" date, such as Claude Opus 4.5 (not before November 24, 2026). Anthropic hasn't set the actual day.
- OpenAI's Private Inference preview, which OpenAI said is "coming this fall" at DevDay on September 29 without a date.
- Siri AI on HomePod mini 2, which Apple says will come "in a future software update," with no date.
What's confirmed, reported and uncertain
- Confirmed (company or official pages): every row marked "Confirmed" above, re-checked October 20, 2026.
- Reported: Anthropic's IPO window (Bloomberg). Character.AI's sale timing is the company's own expectation, not a court date.
- Calculated: the San Francisco moratorium's end date: about November 20 if counted from the October 6 vote, or November 30 from the October 16 signing. Reports differ on which applies.
- Uncertain: whether any lab launches a new frontier model in the window, and whether the IPO and sale dates hold.
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