We prepared the 2025 version of the HF AI Timeline Grid, highlighting open vs API-based model releases, and allowing you to browse and filter by access, modality, and release type!
1️⃣ Q1 — Learning to Reason Deepseek not only releases a top-notch reasoning model, but shows how to train them and compete with closed frontier models. OpenAI debuts Deep Research.
Significant milestones: DeepSeek R1 & R1-Zero, Qwen 2.5 VL, OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental)
2️⃣ Q2 — Multimodality and Coding More LLMs embrace multimodality by default, and there's a surge in coding agents. Strong vision, audio, and generative models emerge.
Significant milestones: Llama 4, Qwen 3, Imagen 4, OpenAI Codex, Google Jules, Claude 4
3️⃣ Q3 — "Gold" rush, OpenAI opens up, the community goes bananas Flagship models get gold in Math olympiads and hard benchmarks. OpenAI releases strong open source models and Google releases the much anticipated nano-banana for image generation and editing. Agentic workflows become commonplace.
Significant milestones: Gemini and OpenAI IMO Gold, gpt-oss, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5
4️⃣ Q4 — Mistral returns, leaderboard hill-climbing Mistral is back with updated model families. All labs release impressive models to wrap up the year!
Significant milestones: Claude Opus 4.5, DeepSeek Math V2, FLUX 2, GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Nano Banana Pro, GLM 4.7, Gemini 3, Mistral 3, MiniMax M2.1 🤯
Excited to share that I've joined the Hugging Face Fellows program! 🤗
Looking forward to contributing to & working more closely with the open-source ecosystem - huge thanks to everyone who's supported me on this journey! 🚀
🎮 Live Model Demo: Upload an Android Screenshot and instructions to see the model in action ! Tonic/l-operator-demo
Built in a garage, funded by pre-orders, no VC. Now we’re scaling to 1 k installer units.
We’re giving 50 limited-edition prototypes to investors , installers & researchers who want to co-design the sovereign smart home.
👇 Drop “EUSKERA” in the comments if you want an invite, tag a friend who still thinks Alexa is “convenient,” and smash ♥️ if AI should belong to people - not servers.
Tremendous quality of life upgrade on the Hugging Face Hub - we now have auto-complete emojis 🤗 🥳 👏 🙌 🎉
Get ready for lots more very serious analysis on a whole range of topics from yours truly now that we have unlocked this full range of expression 😄 🤔 🗣 🙊
Just wanted to annouce 🏭SmolFactory : it's the quickest and best way to finetune SmolLM3 and GPT-OSS-20B on huggingface !
Basicaly it's an app you can run on huggingface by duplicating the space and running your training directly on huggingface GPUs .
It will help you basically select datasets and models, fine tune your model , make an experiment tracker you can use on your mobile phone , push all your model card and even automatically make a demo for you on huggingface so you can directly test it out when it's done !