Top 10 AI Stories Of 2025
ComputerWeekly, December 11,2025
No topic took over 2025 like that of artificial intelligence - whether it was DeepSeek, the discussion around computational resources, low return on investment, or the hype surrounding agentic AI. Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 AI stories of 2025
The year kicked off with a breakthrough coming out of China with Deepseek, which seriously dented the US' ambitions to dominate the market for large language models (LLMs).
What Deepseek showed the world, beyond causing a big hiccup in the financial market valuation of the US AI tech giants, is that China, which the US had attempted to undermine by only allowing the export of less powerful AI acceleration hardware, was able to produce a model that could outperform US LLMs that benefited from the most powerful Nvidia chips.