October 2025: Hollywood vs. The Generative Wave
Stuart Glover
Photo by Abhishek Navlakha on Pexels October saw a high for Meta and Lionsgate, who signed a landmark deal to train video models on cinematic archives legally. This was the…
Stuart Glover
November 2025: NVIDIA Blackwell 2 and the GPU Glut
Photo by Nana Dua on Pexels NVIDIA launched Blackwell 2 in November, an engineering high that promised 10x the efficiency of the previous year. However, the market hit a “low”…
December 2025: AGI Dreams and Year-End Realities
Photo by Alexas Fotos on Pexels The year ended with OpenAI teasing a model they claimed showed “glimmers of AGI,” a massive hype high. But 2025 finished on a sobering…
September 2025: Reasoning Models and the O1 Successor
Photo by Matheus Bertelli on Pexels OpenAI released “Strawberry 2” (o1-successor) in September, a massive high for scientific research. The model successfully solved several unsolved chemistry problems. However, the month…
August 2025: Apple’s AI Ecosystem Domination
Photo by Solen Feyissa on Pexels Apple Intelligence reached its final form in August with the iPhone 17 preview, marking a high for consumer adoption. By processing almost all AI…
July 2025: The Nuclear AI Summer
Photo by Google DeepMind on Pexels July was defined by energy. In a historic high, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a multi-billion dollar investment in modular nuclear reactors to power their…
June 2025: Regulatory Reality and Robot Rights
Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels June marked the full enforcement of the EU AI Act, a bureaucratic low for many US-based AI labs who had to pull services…
February 2025: Sora’s Public Debut and GPU Scarcity
Photo by Matheus Bertelli on Pexels OpenAI’s Sora video generator finally exited its restricted beta, marking a creative high. However, the month was marred by a “low” in the supply…
March 2025: Claude 4 and the Privacy Debate
Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels Anthropic stole the spotlight in March with the release of Claude 4, setting a new high for reasoning and coding benchmarks. The company’s…
April 2025: Llama 4 and the Open Source Surge
Photo by Joaquín Garduño on Pexels Meta disrupted the ecosystem in April with the release of Llama 4. It was an incredible high for the open-source community, as the model…