We prepared the 2025 version of the HF AI Timeline Grid, highlighting open vs API-based model releases, and allowing you to browse and filter by access, modality, and release type!
1๏ธโฃ Q1 โ Learning to Reason Deepseek not only releases a top-notch reasoning model, but shows how to train them and compete with closed frontier models. OpenAI debuts Deep Research.
Significant milestones: DeepSeek R1 & R1-Zero, Qwen 2.5 VL, OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental)
2๏ธโฃ Q2 โ Multimodality and Coding More LLMs embrace multimodality by default, and there's a surge in coding agents. Strong vision, audio, and generative models emerge.
Significant milestones: Llama 4, Qwen 3, Imagen 4, OpenAI Codex, Google Jules, Claude 4
3๏ธโฃ Q3 โ "Gold" rush, OpenAI opens up, the community goes bananas Flagship models get gold in Math olympiads and hard benchmarks. OpenAI releases strong open source models and Google releases the much anticipated nano-banana for image generation and editing. Agentic workflows become commonplace.
Significant milestones: Gemini and OpenAI IMO Gold, gpt-oss, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5
4๏ธโฃ Q4 โ Mistral returns, leaderboard hill-climbing Mistral is back with updated model families. All labs release impressive models to wrap up the year!
Significant milestones: Claude Opus 4.5, DeepSeek Math V2, FLUX 2, GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Nano Banana Pro, GLM 4.7, Gemini 3, Mistral 3, MiniMax M2.1 ๐คฏ
Yesterday, we dropped a new conversational viewer for datasets on the hub! ๐ฌ
Actually being able to view and inspect your data is extremely important. This is a big step in making data more accessible and actionable for everyone.
If you haven't seen yet, we just released Inference Providers ๐
> 4 new serverless inference providers on the Hub ๐คฏ > Use your HF API key or personal key with all providers ๐ > Chat with Deepseek R1, V3, and more on HF Hub ๐ > We support Sambanova, TogetherAI, Replicate, and Fal.ai ๐ช
Best of all, we don't charge any markup on top of the provider ๐ซฐ Have you tried it out yet? HF Pro accounts get $2 of free usage for the provider inference.
All the responses get saved in the cfahlgren1/react-code-instructions dataset. Hopefully we can build one of the biggest, highest quality frontend datasets on the hub ๐ช