β¨ Big wave of foundation models: still scaling, but efficiency, reasoning, and deployment now matter more than size - DeepSeek-V3.2 - Z.ai GLM-4.7 - MiniMax-M2.1 - Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash
β¨ Multimodal reasoning is now default - Z.ai GLM-4.6V - Z.ai AutoGLM-Phone 9B - Bytedance: Dolphin-v2
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!
1οΈβ£ Q1 β 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)
2οΈβ£ Q2 β 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
3οΈβ£ Q3 β "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
4οΈβ£ Q4 β 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 π€―
Only a year into open source, MiniMax is already making a great impact. Not only through solid models/products, but also by how well the team uses community platforms like Hugging Face. HF Teams, blogs, Daily Papers, Spaces as project pages, and always experimenting with new ways to engage. Super impressive!
The list of hands-on notebooks (some beginner-friendly!) to get started with fine-tuning using TRL keeps growing!!
β’ SFT β’ GRPO β’ Tool calling & agents β’ RL environments with OpenEnv β’ LLMs and VLMs β¨ Many run on FREE Colab, making it super easy to get started fast!