{"id":228575,"date":"2026-01-08T05:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/2025-the-year-in-llms"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:06:24","slug":"2025-the-year-in-llms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/2025-the-year-in-llms","title":{"rendered":"2025: The year in LLMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RzPSs6bLrms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2023\/Dec\/31\/ai-in-2023\/\">Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2024\/Dec\/31\/llms-in-2024\/\">Things we learned about LLMs in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a year filled with a <em>lot<\/em> of different trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 and Things we learned about LLMs in 2024. It\u2019s been a year filled with a lot of different trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}