2025 LLM Year in Review

kept by eddie dec 20, 25

Karpathy's 2025 review identifies RLVR, jagged intelligence, Cursor, Claude Code, vibe coding, and Gemini Nano Banana as paradigm-changing developments in LLMs.

Synthetic Pretraining
Synthetic pretraining is reshaping AI by integrating designed data generation early in training, enhancing memorization, logical hardwiring, and system simulations beyond web-curated data.
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Engram: How DeepSeek Added a Second Brain to Their LLM | rewire.it
DeepSeek's Engram architecture adds conditional memory via N-gram lookup tables to LLMs, improving knowledge and reasoning benchmarks by offloading static pattern reconstruction from neural computation.
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