2025 was marked by rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI), including the release of new models, the advancement of agentic AI systems, and the expansion of multimodal capabilities. From the beginning of the year to the end, competition intensified between leading companies in the United States and China, setting new benchmarks.
The progress of the Chinese company DeepSeek marked the beginning of the year. Released in January, the open-source DeepSeek R1 model, which cost only $ 6 million to train, outperformed the leading models from OpenAI and Google in mathematics and programming tests. In December, the company introduced DeepSeek-V3.2 and V3.2-Special versions, which are competitive with Gemini 3.0-Pro and are distinguished by high efficiency in performing long-term logic and agent tasks.
