2025 in artificial intelligence

The following is a list of events of the year 2025 in artificial intelligence.

Events

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.[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.
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 2 – Andrej Karpathy coined the term vibe coding to describe how AI tools allow hobbyists to construct apps and websites, just by typing prompts.[non-primary source needed]
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.

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.

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, cannot continuously learn, and scores lower than Grok-4 on Humanity's Last Exam.

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.

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

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.