Selected releases and historical cleanup
Removed channel operations and duplicate release coverage, grouped models from the same launch, preserved model identities and key history, and separated hosted API retirement from model lifecycle.
ARCHIVE / UPDATES
Archive updates
These are dates of archive maintenance. Model release dates belong in the timeline.
Historical semantics, release sequences, and missing milestones
Separated event facts from current model state, corrected Kontext dev, Kling O1, and Qwen-Image-Edit records, added open-weight and early image milestones, and improved bilingual filtering and release sequences.