2025: The year in LLMs

kept by eddie jan 01

The 2025 LLM landscape was defined by reasoning models, coding agents, Chinese open weight models, prompt-driven image editing, CLI tools, and OpenAI losing its lead.

State of AI | OpenRouter
An empirical study of over 100 trillion LLM tokens on OpenRouter reveals rising open-weight adoption, dominant roleplay and coding tasks, and a 'Glass Slipper' retention effect.
also on Qwen, DeepSeek, OpenAI, #open-source, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
8 plots that explain the state of open models
Qwen dominates open-model downloads and finetunes globally, while DeepSeek leads in large-scale models and GPT-OSS is the only Western contender gaining adoption.
also on Qwen, DeepSeek, OpenAI, #open-source, #ai, #developer-tools
OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a 'code red' to accelerate ChatGPT improvements after Google's Gemini caught up and surpassed OpenAI in user perception.
also on DeepSeek, Gemini, OpenAI, #ai
Closed Source vs Open Source AI: A Cage Fight Few People Understand
The article argues that the "monetizable spread" between open and closed AI models is compressing faster than the capability spread, threatening the valuations of frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
also on DeepSeek, OpenAI, Claude Code, Anthropic, #open-source, #ai-coding, #ai