Tracking the latest advancements in US-based Artificial Intelligence as we close out 2025.
Google's most powerful iteration yet. Built on TPU v6 infrastructure, it introduces "Deep Think" capabilities and native agentic workflows integrated directly into Workspace.
The new king of coding. Opus 4.5 features "Extended Thinking" for complex multi-step reasoning and is widely considered the safest frontier model available.
A massive leap in reasoning capabilities over GPT-4o. GPT-5 (Project Orion) unifies "slow thinking" (Reasoning) and "fast thinking" into a single adaptive interface.
Now with full real-time visual understanding of X (Twitter) data. Grok 4.1 focuses on "unhinged" creativity and high-speed inference for real-time applications.
The open-source champion. Llama 4 introduces a Mixture-of-Experts architecture that rivals proprietary models while running efficiently on enterprise hardware.
A highly efficient reasoning model that replaced o1-mini. Optimized for STEM tasks, code generation, and low-latency agentic loops.