2025 in artificial intelligence
The following is a list of events of the year 2025 in artificial intelligence, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred.
Events
January
- January 20 – DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-R1, a large language model based on DeepSeek-V3 utilising a chain-of-thought, stating it achieves performance comparable to OpenAI-o1 across math, code, and reasoning 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 23 – Humanity's Last Exam, a benchmark for large language models, is published. The dataset consists of 3,000 challenging questions across over a hundred subjects.
- 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 3 – OpenAI releases ChatGPT Deep Research, an artificial intelligence system integrated into ChatGPT, which generates cited reports on a user-specified topic by autonomously browsing the web for 5 to 30 minutes.
- 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.
- Anthropic launches the Anthropic Economic Index, an initiative aimed at "understanding AI's effects on labor markets and the economy over time".
- Elon Musk and a group of investors led by him offer to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion.
- February 27 – OpenAI announces a research preview of GPT-4.5, its largest and most advanced AI model to date.
April
- 16 April – OpenAI announces the launch of two new AI models, o3 and o4-mini.