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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 has achieved a new state-of-the-art score of 93.2% on MMLU, surpassing GPT-5.1 and demonstrating significant advances in broad knowledge understanding.

Between August and November 2025, Gemini monthly active users increased ~30% compared to only 5% for ChatGPT, though ChatGPT maintains the larger userbase with 35% vs 24% weekly usage among US voters.

Gemini 3 Pro has reached 1490 ELO on LMArena, surpassing Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 to claim the top position in human preference rankings.

Asia's share of global LLM spend more than doubled from 13% to 31%, with Singapore (9.21%), China (6.01%), and South Korea (2.88%) leading. North America retains 47%, but global distribution is increasingly decentralized.

Between April 2023 and March 2025, LLM API prices fell by more than 10x at equivalent performance levels, indicating a highly competitive market and significant efficiency gains.

CoreWeave is the only cloud provider to achieve Platinum tier in SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 2.0 rankings, citing exceptional GPU availability and performance.

Despite the agent hype, only 16% of enterprise and 27% of startup deployments qualify as true agents. Most production architectures remain simple, built around fixed-sequence or routing-based workflows.

Microsoft and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership bringing GPT-5 and o1 models exclusively to Azure for enterprise customers, with dedicated capacity guarantees.

NeoSignal model database pruned from 409 to 50 frontier models using smart de-duplication. Removed 161 duplicate versions and 198 lower-scoring models. Focus now on top-performing models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and other leading providers.

Google Gemini is accelerating growth with 155% YoY desktop user growth compared to ChatGPT's 23%. Gemini Pro subscriptions growing nearly 300% YoY versus 155% for ChatGPT Plus.

Epoch AI's estimate of GPT-4o energy cost was corroborated by Sam Altman and matches Google's Gemini data. Average query uses less energy than running a lightbulb for 5 minutes.

ChatGPT daily users in India grew 7x over the past year, resulting in India having over twice the ChatGPT users of the US. Gemini users in India grew 15% in November alone.

58% of AI users report using LLMs for information lookup, far exceeding writing (32%), advice (30%), technical tasks (18%), and multimedia (17%). Most users treat AI as enhanced search, not autonomous agents.

Enterprise generative AI spending hit $37 billion in 2025, up 3.2x from $11.5B in 2024, making it the fastest-scaling software category in history and representing 6% of the global SaaS market.

GAIA benchmark reveals a persistent capability gap between humans and AI on tasks trivially easy for humans. On Level 1 (simplest tasks), humans achieve 92% while best AI achieves 75%. The gap widens at higher difficulty levels, signaling fundamental limitations in AI reasoning and tool use.

Reasoning-optimized models (o1-class, GPT-5, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) now account for over 50% of all LLM token usage, up from negligible share in early 2025. This reflects a fundamental shift from single-pass text completion to multi-step deliberation inference.