Last updated: December 29, 2025 by the editorial team
Author's): AIversion
Originally published in Towards Artificial Intelligence.
Your weekly breakdown of what actually mattered in AI, minus the noise.
It's the last week of December 2025, and while many people are winding down for the holidays, the world of artificial intelligence is doing the exact opposite. As you turned one year old, the AI ​​landscape had fundamentally changed. Models have become faster, intelligence has become deeper, and the cost of building autonomous agents has simply dropped dramatically.
This article discusses this week's notable developments in AI, highlighting advancements such as Google Gemini 3 Flash and GPT-5.2, which feature impressive speed and performance, while prices are falling by model, making high-quality AI accessible to more enterprises than ever. The emergence of agent-based AI systems is being highlighted as a trend that is generating significant revenue for companies, while advances such as DeepSomatic stand out for their real impact on cancer detection. Overall, the landscape is rapidly evolving, with greater emphasis on AI governance and the role of open source models competing with traditional pioneers.
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