A comprehensive 2025 year-in-review of open model releases, documenting the dramatic shift from open models lagging closed ones to rivaling them on most benchmarks. DeepSeek R1 and Qwen 3 became mainstream, driving a wave of Chinese companies releasing open models and accelerating the broader ecosystem. The piece notes that while benchmark parity has been achieved, closed models still dominate real-world usage — and covers the explosion in niche, multimodal, and compute-efficient open model categories beyond just large text models.
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2025 Open Models Year in Review
A comprehensive 2025 year-in-review of open model releases, documenting the dramatic shift from open models lagging closed ones to rivaling them on most benchmarks. DeepSeek R1 and Qwen 3 became mainstream, driving a wave of Chinese companies releasing open models and accelerating the broader ecosystem. The piece notes that while benchmark parity has been achieved, closed models still dominate real-world usage — and covers the explosion in niche, multimodal, and compute-efficient open model categories beyond just large text models.
Saturday, March 21, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: InterconnectsBY sys://pipeline
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