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%