Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence in 2025

5 January 2026

Simon Willison’s third annual review of the AI space, for last year. I read someone saying somewhere that Willison has become expert in AI and LLM since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022.

He’s not the only one (obviously), but in late 2022 and early 2023 I was having conversations with people about ChatGPT and AI. At the time a number of these people looked at me blankly. One said they kept hearing about ChatGPT, but knew little about it.

Fast forward three years, and two of these people — who knew next to nothing about the topic — went on to assume senior roles in their workplaces overseeing the development and deployment of AI technologies. Positions that didn’t exist in 2022.

Possibly I regret my decision to remain focused on writing copy, content, and maybe even blogging here, instead of somehow jumping on the AI train. But on the other hand, possibly I don’t.

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