2025 is seen as an important milestone for the AI industry, when a series of new achievements appear, reshaping the development direction of the global technology industry. Not only stopping at increasing the scale of the model, AI this year shows a clear shift to efficiency, algorithmic depth and reasoning capabilities.
A major highlight is the launch of DeepSeek R1, an open-source AI model from China. Appearing in early 2025, DeepSeek R1 proves that reasoning systems can still achieve high performance without relying on a huge computing infrastructure. The application of the model with experts and advanced attention mechanisms helps this AI model effectively exploit less modern GPUs, resetting the issue of costs and energy consumption in AI training.
In the field of mathematics, 2025 recorded a symbolic milestone when AI models of OpenAI and Google DeepMind achieved results equivalent to gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad. This achievement shows that AI has moved closer to the ability to reason abstractly at a high level, far exceeding the role of creating text or images. Researchers expect this ability to support solving many complex problems in cryptography, theoretical physics and other basic science fields.
In the creative field, AI image creation tools continue to break through. OpenAI's Images for ChatGPT feature creates a wave of Ghibli-style art on social networks, attracting a large number of users. The application of the GPT-4o model with the self-regression image creation method helps images become coherent, detailed and easy to control, reflecting the maturity of multi-mode AI.
2025 also witnessed the emergence of AI agents, systems capable of automatically performing tasks. To overcome the limitations when agents have to interact with the internet designed for humans, model context protocols are promoted as an open standard, receiving the support of many large technology corporations. This is considered an important step in reshaping the way AI approaches the digital world.
The most bold breakthrough comes from the space field, when Starcloud announced the successful training of an AI model on a GPU placed on a low-orbit satellite. This experiment opens up the possibility of building AI infrastructure beyond Earth, reducing pressure on resources and the environment.
Overall, 2025 marks a period of AI transformation, where the quality of thinking and model design is placed on par, even surpassing the size race, creating a premise for profound changes in the following years.
