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AI Wrapped 2025

A few spoilers before you scroll

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Nesibe | AI Governance Expert
Dec 29, 2025
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Happy New Year, everyone.

Before we rush into what’s next, I wanted to pause for a moment and look backward, and share a few highlights from the past year that I genuinely think you’ll care about.

Over the last year, I did something a bit obsessive but very intentional. I read, cross-checked, and compared more than 70 AI reports, policy documents, market analyses, and research papers. I pulled all of that into a 125-page working document, and eventually shaped it into this deck.

  • Full 51 page of report is here: AI WRAPPED 2025

Not because I wanted more numbers. We already have too many numbers. I did it because 2025 felt like the year AI stopped being a topic and started being a condition. So this is not a “top trends” wrap-up. It’s my attempt to describe what changed under the surface. Here are a few spoilers that explain what you’re about to read.

1) The real frontier isn’t models anymore. It’s electricity.

We keep debating which model is “best” while the real competition is happening at a…

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