{"id":679442,"date":"2025-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/?p=679442"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:30:38","slug":"a-year-in-review-ai-kpop-demon-hunters-and-6-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/12\/31\/a-year-in-review-ai-kpop-demon-hunters-and-6-7\/","title":{"rendered":"A year in review: AI, KPop Demon Hunters, and 6-7"},"content":{"rendered":"

? In 2025, everything moved fast. <\/strong>Four frontier AI models launched within 25 days. A heist at the Louvre took eight minutes. The TikTok ban lasted less than 24 hours. Markets crashed and recovered before analysts could explain what happened. Wars escalated, paused, and resumed. A British airline jingle from 2022 became the year\u2019s most inescapable sound. This was a year that rewarded speed and punished anyone who blinked, so ICYMI\u2026<\/p>\n

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? AI\u2026 again and again and again<\/p>\n

The AI industry rode into 2025 on a wave of hype and ended it with a more sober <\/strong>assessment of what the technology is capable of \u2014 both good and bad.<\/strong> The year saw an unprecedented pace of model releases, with every major AI company shipping significant upgrades multiple times.<\/p>\n

OpenAI released o3 and o4-mini in April with native agentic capabilities.<\/strong> GPT-5 launched in August featuring unified reasoning, a 400k token context window, and full multimodal processing. GPT-5.1 followed in November, and GPT-5.2 in December. The company hit USD 1 bn<\/a> in monthly revenue mid-year (and USD 8 bn<\/a> in losses), and reached 700 mn weekly active users by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

The competition was fierce. <\/strong>From 17 November through 11 December, the industry witnessed an unprecedented concentration of frontier model releases<\/a> \u2014 xAI\u2019s Grok 4.1, Google\u2019s Gemini 3, Anthropic\u2019s Claude Opus 4.5, and OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.2 all landed within 25 days. Gemini 3 topped several benchmarks, reportedly triggering a \u201ccode red\u201d memo from OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But 2025 seems to be setting up a year of reckoning for AI. <\/strong>MIT Technology Review called it \u201cthe great AI hype correction,\u201d pointing to research<\/a> showing that a whopping 95% of businesses that tried using AI found zero value in it. GPT-5 \u2014 which was hyped to be a \u201cPhD-level expert in anything\u201d \u2014 botched the landing in August, triggering the biggest vibe shift since ChatGPT first debuted.<\/p>\n

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? Consumer tech<\/p>\n

Nintendo\u2019s Switch 2 was one of the year\u2019s most anticipated hardware launches.<\/strong> The console <\/a>brought<\/a><\/a> a sleeker design with magnetic Joy-Cons, a larger 1080p HDR display, significantly stronger performance, and mouse controls.<\/p>\n

Apple made its boldest hardware <\/strong>bargain<\/strong> in years with the iPhone Air<\/strong>, unveiled<\/a> in September as the thinnest iPhone ever made at just 5.6mm thick. Apple CEO Tim Cook called it \u201cthe biggest step ever with iPhone,\u201d but it comes at a cost \u2014 and we don\u2019t mean the USD 1k+ price tag. The <\/a>tepid<\/a>sales<\/a> reportedly caused rival manufacturers, including Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo, to scrap their own ultra-thin phone projects.<\/p>\n

The foldable phone market took another leap forward when Samsung launched the <\/strong>Galaxy Z Trifold on 1 December<\/strong>, making tri-fold tech widely available<\/a> for the first time. Huawei\u2019s Mate XT had proven the concept earlier, but Samsung brought it to the mainstream.<\/p>\n

Other hardware highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n