LLM Wrapped

A data-driven look at language model development and deployment across the year.

While industry discourse proclaimed 2025 “the year of the agent,” actual deployment tells a more measured story.

The gap between experimentation and production-scale deployment remained significant.

2025 saw continued investment in large-scale models

Code generation emerged as AI’s first demonstrable commercial success.

This marks the first clear productization beyond general chatbot interfaces.

2025 marked a shift from single-pass inference to multi-step reasoning architectures.

OpenAI o1 series, Gemini Deep Think, Claude’s thinking mode