Andy Halliday

Oh, I want to just talk about it being December and we're going to start thinking retrospectively about what happened in 2025 and what's going to be happening in 2026.

But I just wanted to say what a difference a year makes.

Like I'm going to talk about this very large state of the AI space.

base that was just published by Open Router.

And they're in a unique position because Open Router, of course, sees all the traffic to all the different models that are, you know, by the users of Open Router.

But anyway, they just published this very long, I think it's 70 plus pages, document that I'm going to feed to Notebook LM shortly.

But I only saw it for the first time this morning.

It came across the news wires.

And it's primarily about 2025 being not necessarily the year of agents, although agents are important that way, but it is the seminal year during which reasoning models came to the fore.

And

that the field of AI shifted inference from a single pass sort of prediction response, right?

So the dense model spits out the response to whatever your prompt was to multi-step deliberation inference.

So if you rewind the clock, a little over a year ago, we started to hear from OpenAI about some model they had called Strawberry.

And Strawberry was inside and it was doing something peculiar that the other models hadn't been doing before.

Not peculiar.

It was doing everything that they wanted it to.

And so they were teasing us with what Strawberry was.

And it was then released December 5th of 2024.

So one year ago.

Yeah, literally.