Finally, a Way to Choose the Right AI Model
Nate

Finally, a Way to Choose the Right AI Model

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We're all drowning in AI model releases.

Let me paint you the full picture of 2025 so far - at least 12 major model releases in just under six months:

January 20: DeepSeek drops R1 (671B parameters)

January 29: Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max

February 17: xAI launches Grok 3

February 27: OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 "Orion"

March 12: Google open-sources Gemma 3

March 25: Google releases Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental)

April 5: Meta launches Llama 4 Scout AND Maverick

April 16: OpenAI releases o3 AND GPT-o4-mini (same day!)

April 29: Alibaba's back with Qwen 3

May 22-23: Anthropic announces Claude Opus 4 AND Sonnet 4

June 5: Google updates Gemini 2.5 Pro (again)

June 10: OpenAI releases o3 Pro AND slashes o3's price by 80%