Know the minute a new AI model drops.
- Checkers sweep the provider APIs and public catalogs every 60 seconds — the moment a new model answers, you know.
- Email + Chrome push, free. Paid plans add SMS and a phone call.
- You choose what fires: SOTA only, everything, or hand-picked models — per channel.
- Paid plans also watch the AI subscriptions you pay for — lineup changes, prices, limits, sunsets.
One sweep every minute. Then everything fires.
No dashboards to babysit. Pick the models, pick the channels, and go back to work — the board does the watching.
Checkers sweep the APIs
Every 60 seconds we poll the provider APIs we can reach directly plus the public catalogs every lab ships to, and wait for a genuinely new frontier model to return a real answer — debounced, no false alarms.
Every channel you enabled
The moment a launch is confirmed, your channels fire at once — email and Chrome push on the free plan; SMS and a phone call on paid plans.
Then the intel rolls in
A scorecard on the new model the day it lands — on The Call, your own saved prompts run against it too. Then we keep watching your subscriptions: the models they offer, their prices, their limits, and what quietly gets retired.
Everything on the wire.
The radar shows what lands next. This is the whole book — announced, leaked, rumored, or simply inevitable. Every one of them is swept every 60 seconds, and every one fires your alerts the second it answers.
Start free. Get louder when it matters.
The ladder runs $0 to $34.99. Free watches, Signal texts, The Call rings — the one feature nearly every paying member of our predecessor cited. The Watchtower is the evidence tier: it judges what landed. Founding closed July 2026; founders keep $9 for life. Most people land on The Call: it costs less than one of the AI subscriptions it guards.
- Email alert on every launch
- Chrome desktop notification
- Dashboard: pick your models — SOTA-only, every lab, or a custom list
- The radar, the wire, the bench index + a page for every tracked model
- Live Polymarket odds on every watched launch
- Arrives in the free batch — about 15 minutes after members' alerts
No card. No spam. Free forever. You'll know everything we know — fifteen minutes later.
- Everything in Free
- Instant — every channel fires the moment a launch is confirmed, ahead of the free batch
- SMS the minute a model goes live
- Per-model text routing — follow the models you care about, mute the rest
- Quiet hours — overnight texts hold until morning
Every feature on this card is live today. Cancel anytime. One tier up, your phone doesn't buzz — it rings.
- The automated phone call — a text gets missed, a call gets answered; it rings until you know
- Everything in Signal — instant SMS, per-model routing, quiet hours (inside your window the call rolls to a text, never a 3am ring)
- Ring, text, or both — chosen per model: ring for GPT-6, text for the rest
- Charter rate — $19.99 never rises while you stay subscribed
Less than one of the AI subscriptions it guards. Every feature listed is live right now — nothing here is a promise. If a flagship drop doesn't ring your phone, that month is on us. Cancel anytime.
- Everything in The Call — the ring, the texts, the routing, the quiet hours
- Is it nerfed? — a fixed battery of verifiable prompts re-run on the models you depend on, so a quiet quality drop shows up as evidence instead of a feeling armed with the tier
- Prompt packs — your real prompts auto-run on every new model day-0, raw answers in your inbox
- Subscription watch — models quietly added to, or pulled from, the Gemini app & Anthropic's published model table (more surfaces next)
- Sunset & deprecation alerts — hear before a model you rely on is retired
- Price, limit & market-threshold alerts across the providers you pay
- The weekly intelligence brief — what changed and what to do about it
- Personal eval harness — your own 5–20 prompts scored on every launch, side by side next
- Regression history — when your model changed, what you switched to, and whether it held next
- Head-to-head on demand — your prompt across the current top models, judged and ranked next
No card, no charge, no ship date promised — we don't sell it until the harness exists. Waitlist members lock $34.99 when it opens. Everyone already on a paid plan keeps every feature they have today, permanently, whatever happens to this tier.
✳ The Call is the alert you cannot miss; the Watchtower is the verdict on what landed. Every untagged feature above is live today — see the full roadmap → · our public track record →
The honest answers.
How fast is "the minute it drops"?
Our checkers sweep provider APIs every 60 seconds, and a detection is confirmed on a second sweep before anything fires. The moment it's confirmed, paid alerts fire instantly: Signal texts you; The Call rings your phone (and texts). Free channels follow in a batch about 15 minutes later.
Which models do you watch?
The radar pins the latest confirmed drops on top and shows what lands next — Grok 4.7, GLM-5.5, Kimi K3.1 and Mistral Large 4. Gemini 3.5 Pro sits there too, for a different reason: it has been live in limited preview since July, and the general availability everyone is actually waiting on has now slipped past every window since June. The full watchlist tracks 97, including the restricted Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, plus Grok 5, GPT-6, Fable 6, Gemini 4 and more. Click any model for its own page: the leaks, the news, the official word, and the live Polymarket odds on when it drops. Tune alerts to SOTA-only, every major-lab LLM, or specific models, plus extra streams for AI tools, local models, and Chinese models.
What is the subscription watch?
The Call watches the AI subscriptions you already pay for — today that’s the published Claude model lineup and the Gemini app’s model list, plus API prices and limits across providers (ChatGPT’s surface is next). When a model is quietly added — or pulled, the way Fable just was — you hear immediately. The quality tracker covers the sneakier case: same model on the menu, worse answers.
How do you avoid false alarms?
An alert only fires when a model answers a real request over a public API — not a rumor, a leak, or a docs page. A detection is confirmed on a second sweep, then the model has to actually reply to a test prompt before any channel fires.
What's the difference between Signal and The Call?
Signal ($12) kills the delay: instant SMS on the same sweep that catches the launch, routed per model. The Call ($19.99) is the tier whose phone rings — a text gets missed, a call gets answered — plus everything after the launch: your prompts run on every new model day-0, and alerts when your AI subscriptions add or pull models, change prices or limits, or retire a model you rely on. All for less than one of the subscriptions it guards.
What happened to Founding?
Founding closed in July 2026. It was the launch-era tier — $9/mo for the early believers — and everyone who joined keeps that rate for life, grandfathered unconditionally. It closed as a decision, not a sell-out. The ladder today is Free, Signal, and The Call.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Every paid plan is monthly with no lock-in — cancel in one click and keep access through the period you’ve paid for. One caveat worth knowing: The Call’s $19.99 charter rate is locked while you stay subscribed — cancel and the lock is gone; rejoining later means whatever the price is then. (Grandfathered founders: same deal on your $9.)
Do you have a desktop or mobile app?
On the way. The plan: a macOS menubar radar with a full-screen drop banner, then iPhone and Android apps with widgets, then Windows and Linux trays. Email and Chrome push work everywhere today — see the roadmap.
What’s the Watchtower tier?
The tier for people who want their own evidence. The Call tells you a model landed; the Watchtower judges it. It carries the whole intelligence layer — the “is it nerfed?” quality battery on the models you depend on, prompt packs, subscription and sunset watch, price and limit alerts, and the weekly brief — and adds your personal eval harness: 5–20 of your own prompts scored on every launch, with regression history and on-demand head-to-heads. The harness is designed but not built yet, so we don’t sell the tier — no ship date promised; waitlist members lock the $34.99/mo charter price when it opens. Anyone already on a paid plan keeps every feature they have today, permanently.
Are you affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…?
No. ArtificialWatch is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any AI lab. We watch their public APIs and tell you the second something ships.
You won’t be watching when it drops. We will.
GPT-6 Astra dropped Sep 3 — the same $10/$50 sticker as Fable 5.1, Trusted Access first — and our own sweep read it on the public API the next day. Next on the radar: Grok 4.7, which Musk has pinned to early September, and Gemini 3.5 Pro at 69% by Oct 31. Be on the board before they answer.