Some 2025 takeaways in LLMs: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months.
Simon Willison has a great summary of LLM progress in 2025: — • Reasoning models have made LLMs useful for web search. — • AI agents now work well for Deep Research and Coding. — • AI image generation went mainstream. — • Vibe coding became a big business. …
Enjoyed @simonwillison.net 's wrap up of the year in AI. His is probably my favourite developer-focussed AI blog. Definitely worth a regular read: — simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/ ...
Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months — simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/ ... This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents: [image]