Notable AI releases and advancements in 2025 included OpenAI's continued growth, China's open-source wave, and growth of local models.
Why it matters
The 2025 AI landscape saw significant developments in open-source models, local models, and advancements in generative AI from OpenAI, but remains diverse and complex.
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Users of Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF, How is Performance & Benchmarks?
Qwen3-VL-32B-Thinking EXL3 3.5bpw – first working 32B VL quant on single 4090 (16-17 t/s)
Run Qwen3-Next locally Guide! (30GB RAM) from Unsloth
Qwen3 Next imatrix GGUFs up!
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B vs gpt-oss-120b
Local Video-to-Text Pipeline on Apple Silicon (Whisper + Qwen2.5-VL) - Optimized for 8GB/16GB RAM
How the heck is Qwen3-Coder so fast? Nearly 10x other models.
Qwen3-235B-A22B achieves SOTA in EsoBench, Claude 4.5 Opus places 7th. EsoBench tests how well models learn and use a private esolang.
Qwen3-VL Computer Using Agent works extremely well
Qwen3-2B-VL for OCR is actually insane. Dockerized Set Up + GitHub
Strix Halo, Debian [email protected]&6.17.8, Qwen3Coder-Q8 CTX<=131k, llama.cpp@Vulkan&ROCm, Power & Efficiency
Frustrating Reality: Even the "smartest" LLMs (including GPT-5.1, Gemini 3 , Qwen, oPUS 4.5) fail basic graph reading tasks in STEM exams
FLUX.2 vs. Qwen Image Edit 2509 vs. Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview