# 2025 LLM Year in Review

> When one of AI's most respected voices shares his year in review, it's worth paying attention. Karpathy on what 2025 meant for LLMs.

- URL: https://workingbruno.com/links/2025-llm-year-review/
- Published: 2025-12-20
- Source: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/

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Andrej Karpathy was Tesla's AI director, co-founded OpenAI, and is one of the most respected voices in the field. When he publishes his personal retrospective of the year in LLMs, it's worth paying attention.

His conclusion is what sticks with me most: LLMs are simultaneously much smarter and much dumber than he expected - and the industry hasn't yet realized even 10% of their current potential.