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2025 Open Models Year in Review

The first recap of a long year in the trenches of open models.

Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert
Dec 15, 2025
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This post originally appeared in Interconnects.

“By 2025, open models were no longer an alternative to closed AI systems—they were credible competitors across most benchmarks.”

Welcome to the first Art…

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