2025 in artificial intelligence

January

• January 20 – DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-R1, a large language model based on DeepSeek-V3 stating it achieves performance comparable to OpenAI-o1 in certain tasks. DeepSeek-R1 is open-source.^{[1][non-primary source needed]}
• January 21 – The Stargate Project, a joint venture created by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX, is formally announced by U.S. president Donald Trump.^[2][3]
• January 27
  • Nvidia's stock falls by as much as 17–18%, after the release of DeepSeek-R1.^[4]
  • DeepSeek-R1 surpasses ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on the iOS App Store in the United States.^[5]

February

• February 2 – Andrej Karpathy coined the term vibe coding to describe how AI tools allow hobbyists to construct apps and websites, just by typing prompts.^{[6][non-primary source needed]}
• February 3 – OpenAI releases ChatGPT Deep Research, an artificial intelligence system integrated into ChatGPT.^[7]
• February 6 – Mistral AI releases Le Chat, an AI assistant able to answer up to 1,000 words per second.^[8]
• February 10
  • AI Action Summit takes place in Paris, France, for two days.
  • It is announced that France will receive 109 billion euros in AI private investments over the coming years.^[9]
  • Elon Musk and a group of investors led by him offer to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion.^[10]

May

• 20 May
  • Google launches A.I. Mode, which will be a feature on their search engine, and uses the Gemini model.^[11]
  • Google DeepMind announces Veo 3, a new state-of-the-art video generation model.^[12][13]
• 22 May – Anthropic releases Claude 4, with two models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. According to Anthropic, Claude 4 can function on its own for hours.^[14]

August

• 5 August – xAI launches their image generator Grok Imagine, which has a 'spicy mode' that allows users to create NSFW content.^[15]

• 8 August – OpenAI releases GPT-5. According to Sam Altman, "GPT-5 can provide PhD-level expertise",^{[16][17][18][19]} but GPT-5 struggled with basic tasks such as spelling and geography,^[16][17] cannot continuously learn, and scores lower than Grok-4 on Humanity's Last Exam.^[16]

September

• 29 September – OpenAI introduces parental controls for ChatGPT, including notifications if a child talks about self-harm, screen-time limits, disabling voice mode, image generation and memories.^[20]

November

• 24 November – Mission Genesis, an initiative by the United States federal government to accelerate artificial intelligence research, is signed by Donald Trump.^[21]