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 Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., Trade name, doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Deepse ...

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 Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

. *January 21 – The Stargate Project, a joint venture created by

OpenAI OpenAI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines ...

SoftBank is a Japanese multinational Investment company, investment holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, that focuses on investment management. The group primarily invests in companies operating in technology that offer goods and services ...

Oracle An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. If done through occultic means, it is a form of divination. Descript ...

and MGX, is formally announced by

U.S. president The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the Federal government of the United States#Executive branch, executive branch of the Federal government of t ...

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45 ...

. * January 23 –

Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a language model benchmark consisting of 2,500 questions across a broad range of subjects. It was created jointly by the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI. Creation Stanford HAI's AI Index 2025 Annual Report cites ...

, a benchmark for large language models, is published. The dataset consists of 3,000 challenging questions across over a hundred subjects. * January 27 **

Nvidia Nvidia Corporation ( ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang (president and CEO), Chris Malachowsky, and Curti ...

's stock falls by as much as 17–18%, after the release of DeepSeek-R1. ** DeepSeek-R1 surpasses

ChatGPT ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022. It uses large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o as well as other Multimodal learning, multimodal models to create human-like re ...

as the most-downloaded free app on the

iOS App Store The App Store is an app marketplace developed and maintained by Apple, for mobile apps on its iOS and iPadOS operating systems. The store allows users to browse and download approved apps developed within Apple's iOS SDK. Apps can be download ...

in the United States.

February

* February 3 – OpenAI releases

ChatGPT Deep Research Deep Research is an AI agent integrated into ChatGPT, which generates cited reports on a user-specified topic by autonomously browsing the web for 5 to 30 minutes. Agent Deep Research can interpret and analyze text, images, and PDFs. It is base ...

, 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 Mistral AI SAS () is a French artificial intelligence (AI) startup, headquartered in Paris. Founded in 2023, it specializes in open-weight large language models (LLMs), with both open-source and proprietary AI models. Namesake The company is ...

releases Le Chat, an AI assistant able to answer up to 1,000 words per second. * February 10 **

AI Action Summit The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit was held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, from 10 to 11 February 2025. The summit was co-chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 2025 AI Actio ...

takes place in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, France, for two days. ** It is announced that

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

will receive 109 billion euros in AI private investments over the coming years. **

Anthropic Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) startup company founded in 2021. Anthropic has developed a family of large language models (LLMs) named Claude as a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. According to the ...

launches the Anthropic Economic Index, an initiative aimed at "understanding AI's effects on labor markets and the economy over time". **

Elon Musk Elon Reeve Musk ( ; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman. He is known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk has been considered the wealthiest person in th ...

and a group of investors led by him offer to buy

for $97.4 billion. * February 27 – OpenAI announces a research preview of

GPT-4.5 GPT-4.5 (codenamed "Orion") is a large language model developed by OpenAI as part of the GPT series. Officially released on February 27, 2025, GPT-4.5 is available to users subscribed to the ChatGPT Plus and Pro plans across web, mobile, and des ...

, 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.

May

* 14 May – Google DeepMind announces AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms. DeepMind_new_logo

* 20 May ** Google launches A.I. Mode, which will be a feature on their search engine, and uses the Gemini model. **

Google DeepMind DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Goo ...

announces Veo 3, a new state-of-the-art video generation model. The company also boosts the performance of Gemini 2.5 Pro, its flagship AI 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.

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