
The Foundation-Model Frenzy: How 2025 Has Rewritten the AI Playbook
IntroductionEight months into 2025, AI progress feels less like incremental improvement and more like an arms race of imagination. Frontier labs are shipping ever-larger, ever-smarter models, multimodality has graduated from “cool demo” to table-stakes feature, and open-weight releases are forcing tech giants to rethink their moat strategies. Below is a mid-year pulse check on what’s […]