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AI 3D Model Release Tracker
A dated tracker of AI 3D model releases confirmed from vendor pages and repositories, with the date precision of each entry and the gaps stated. Last updated 2026-11-08.
Last updated: 2026-11-08. This tracker lists AI 3D model and API releases that we confirmed on a vendor page, repository or model card, with the date precision each source allows. It is not a complete history. If a release is missing, we did not confirm it; we have not filled gaps from memory. Meshy and Rodin publish API changelogs we could read; several other vendors publish none we could read.
How to read the dates
“Month” means the source gives only a month. “Docs added” means the entry records when documentation appeared, which may differ from when the model reached users. A version identifier that contains a date-like string is listed as an identifier, not a release date. Newest entries first within each vendor.
Rodin / Hyper3D (Deemos)
Source: the API changelog at docs.hyper3d.ai, month precision only. Newest first.
| When | Entry | Precision |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | Rigging API docs and Generate Images API docs added | Month, docs added |
| September 2026 | Rodin Agentic API docs added; quality_override and mesh_mode parameters added to Bang |
Month, docs added |
| August 2026 | Generate Texture API: texture resolution matrix and updated pricing; add-on pricing updated for Gen-1/1.5, Gen-2 and Gen-2.5 | Month |
| July 2026 | API documentation migrated to the new Hyper3D API docs; Gen-2.5 default geometry_instruct_mode changed from faithful to creative |
Month |
| June 2026 | geometry_instruct_mode=creative on Gen-2.5 restricted to the Gen-2.5-Medium tier and higher |
Month |
| May 2026 | Rodin Gen-2.5 API docs added | Month, docs added |
| September 2025 | Rodin Gen-2 API docs added | Month, docs added |
The changelog tells readers to confirm credit costs on the pricing page before paid runs. Note the July 2026 default change: a default that changes can alter results with no new model name, which is why version regressions matter.
Meshy
Source: the Meshy API changelog at docs.meshy.ai/en/api/changelog, which gives calendar dates. These are API availability dates; the web app may have shipped a model earlier or later, and the web-app docs and docs landing page (which lists Meshy 7, Meshy 6 and Smart Topology) are not dated. Newest first.
| When | Entry | Precision |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-05 | A Relief API (one photo to a bas-relief 3D model and a depth map) | Day, API |
| 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-03 | meshy-n1 accepted for Retexture (Nov 2); texture_model option for Image to 3D and Multi-Image to 3D, and meshy-n1 accepted for Text to 3D refine (Nov 3) |
Day, API |
| 2026-10-30 | Some Meshy T1 (lowpoly) requests moved to Smart Topology, others return 400; the changelog says all T1 requests return 400 from 2026-11-30 |
Day, API (the 11-30 date is an announcement) |
| 2026-10-15 | meshy-t2.5 added as the newest Smart Topology model |
Day, API |
| 2026-10-10 | meshy-5 retired (requests return 400; changelog says to switch to meshy-6-lite); retirement was announced 2026-09-16 |
Day, API |
| 2026-09-18 | meshy-7.1 added; latest now resolves to it; meshy-7 deprecated (still works) |
Day, API |
| 2026-09-11 | meshy-6-lite added as successor to meshy-5, which was deprecated the same day (still working until retirement) |
Day, API |
| 2026-08-12 and 2026-08-13 | meshy-7 added to Image to 3D, Multi-Image to 3D and Retexture (Aug 12) and to Text to 3D (Aug 13); Smart Topology (meshy-t2) added to Text to 3D (Aug 13) |
Day, API |
| 2026-07-13 | Smart Topology added as a model_type for Image to 3D |
Day, API |
| 2026-01-19 and 2026-01-26 | latest resolves to Meshy 6 for Text to 3D (Preview) and Image to 3D (Jan 19); Meshy-6 full mesh generation added to Multi-Image to 3D (Jan 26) |
Day, API |
| 2025-09-16 and 2025-09-23 | latest option added to Image to 3D (Sep 16) and Text to 3D (Sep 23), using Meshy 6 Preview |
Day, API |
The changelog also records older entries, such as meshy-5 becoming stable on 2025-08-13 and meshy-4 being retired on 2026-03-20. Because the latest alias moved to 7.1 on 2026-09-18, batch pipelines that need reproducible output should pin explicit model IDs. Meshy’s Terms of Service page is dated “Last Updated: September 19, 2026”, which is a legal change, not a model release. We did not find a dated web-app release note for 7.1 or 6 Lite, so those dates apply to the API only; Meshy’s web-app pricing docs say Meshy 7.1 is not available in Text to 3D there, while the API changelog lists it for Text to 3D. See the Meshy review.
Tripo
Tripo’s developer docs name Tripo H3.1, Tripo P2.0, AI Texture and Segmentation V2, with no dates; the page has no changelog. A sample call uses the identifier v3.1-20260211, and the rigging API lists model identifiers v1.0-20240301, v2.5-20260210 and v3.0-20260909. We do not treat these strings as release dates because the pages do not say what the suffix means. tripo3d.ai pages returned 403, so product-site announcements are unread. See the Tripo review.
Hunyuan3D (Tencent)
| When | Entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-21 | Hunyuan3D 2.0 inference code and pretrained models released (README news); the Hunyuan3D 2.0 Community License is dated the same day | Hunyuan3D-2 repository README and LICENSE |
| 2025-06-13 | Hunyuan3D-2.1 released (README news; the Hugging Face model was created the same day) | Hunyuan3D-2.1 and Hunyuan3D-2 READMEs, Hugging Face listing |
| 2025-06-23 | Technical report for 2.5 released (arXiv 2506.16504); no 2.5 model appears in the Tencent Hugging Face listing we read | Hunyuan3D-2 README news |
| 2025-09-17 | Notebookcheck article of this date reports 3.0 launched on Tencent’s hosted platform and Omni planned as open source; press report, not a Tencent page | Notebookcheck (secondary) |
| 2025-09-25 | Hunyuan3D-Omni listed with this date in its repository’s model zoo (the Hugging Face repo was created 2025-09-23) | Hunyuan3D-Omni repository, Hugging Face listing |
Tencent Cloud’s documentation for the hosted API says selecting version 3.0 or 3.1 in the Model parameter does not consume extra credits; the page carries only a whole-page “Last updated: 2026-05-08” stamp and no release date for 3.1. We found no open-weight 3.x release in the Hugging Face listing (highest version listed is 2.1); the open-weight line we confirmed ends at 2.1 and Omni. See the Hunyuan3D review.
TRELLIS (Microsoft)
| When | Entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-18 | TRELLIS multi-image conditioning added | TRELLIS README news |
| 2024-12-26 | TRELLIS-500K dataset | TRELLIS README news |
| 2025-03-25 | Training code released | TRELLIS README news |
| 2025-12-01 | TRELLIS.2-4B model page created on Hugging Face (last modified 2025-12-27); the card links a paper published 2025-12-16 | Hugging Face model card and API |
The TRELLIS.2 README has no dated news entries. Its README and model card both say an NVIDIA GPU with at least 24 GB of memory is necessary (the original TRELLIS README says 16 GB); see the TRELLIS.2 review.
Discontinued
Luma Genie: the Luma 3D Capture App Store release notes (v1.3.14, dated “Jan 14” with no year shown in the text we read) say “We’ve officially Sunset Genie since January 1, 2026.” See the Luma Genie page.
Not covered
3D AI Studio (aggregator model list, no dated release feed), Sloyd, Kaedim, and most vendor announcements on blocked or unreadable pages. Tripo P2.0 has no confirmed launch date here, and Meshy web-app launch dates are unconfirmed.
What we plan to link
When a tracked model version changes, the plan is to re-run a fixed prompt subset and link the result here. That has not started; no regression results exist. For the protocol, see model version regressions. Back to the guides hub.
Sources
- Rodin / Hyper3D API changelog
- Meshy API changelog
- Meshy API pricing
- Meshy blog index
- Tripo developer docs
- Tripo rigging API
- Hunyuan3D-2.1 repository
- Hunyuan3D-Omni repository
- Tencent Cloud: Hunyuan 3D hosted API parameters
- Microsoft TRELLIS.2 README
- Meshy Terms of Service
- Hunyuan3D-2 repository
- Hugging Face model listing, Tencent Hunyuan3D
- Microsoft TRELLIS README
- TRELLIS.2-4B model card
- Luma 3D Capture App Store release notes
- Notebookcheck on Hunyuan 3D 3.0