January • January 13 - The UK
Department of Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) publishes the
AI Opportunities Action Plan for the UK. • 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. • January 21 – The
Stargate Project, a joint venture created by
OpenAI,
SoftBank,
Oracle and
MGX, is formally announced by
U.S. president Donald Trump. • January 27 •
Nvidia's stock falls by as much as 17–18%, after the release of DeepSeek-R1. • DeepSeek-R1 surpasses
ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on the
iOS App Store in the United States.
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. • February 3 – OpenAI releases
ChatGPT Deep Research, an artificial intelligence system integrated into ChatGPT. • February 6 –
Mistral AI releases Le Chat, an AI assistant able to answer up to 1,000 words per second. • 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. •
Elon Musk and a group of investors led by him offer to buy
OpenAI for $97.4 billion.
May • 20 May • Google launches A.I. Mode, which will be a feature on their search engine, and uses the Gemini model. •
Google DeepMind announces
Veo 3, a new state-of-the-art video generation model. • 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.
August • 5 August –
xAI launches their image generator
Grok Imagine, which has a 'spicy mode' that allows users to create NSFW content. • 8 August – OpenAI releases
GPT-5. According to
Sam Altman, "GPT-5 can provide PhD-level expertise", but GPT-5 struggled with basic tasks such as spelling and geography,
November • 24 November –
Mission Genesis, an initiative by the
United States federal government to accelerate artificial intelligence research, is signed by
Donald Trump.
December • 13 December –
Walt Disney announced a billion dollar investment in
OpenAI and new partnership enabling
Sora (OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform) to use over 200 Disney characters in its content. ==See also==