{"id":35399,"date":"2025-12-02T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=35399"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:00:43","slug":"what-happened-in-the-world-of-ai-this-week-2-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/what-happened-in-the-world-of-ai-this-week-2-december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Diaries: What Happened in the World of AI This Week? (2 December 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Artificial intelligence technologies<\/strong>, which have recently started to be used much more widely in daily life, continue to develop rapidly. While a remarkable development takes place in this field almost every day, important thresholds are being crossed one by one. In our “AI Diaries<\/a><\/em>“<\/strong> series, we continue to regularly record the development of this technological revolution, which has the potential to significantly change life on earth in the coming period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Happened in the World of AI This Week?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Google<\/strong>‘s rise in the artificial intelligence world continued this week. Google, which made a name for itself with software such as Gemini 3<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Nano Banana<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in previous weeks, raised the stakes on the hardware side this week. The fact that the company’s AI-specific TPUs<\/strong> have become a serious alternative to Nvidia’s GPUs<\/strong> showed that Alphabet<\/strong> will be ambitious in this field as well. On the other hand, important developments took place on the OpenAI<\/strong> front this week. In parallel with all this, as every week, new artificial intelligence tools entered our lives. Here are the prominent developments of this week in the world of artificial intelligence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Google is Getting Stronger in the AI World<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Google<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which has achieved great success with artificial intelligence tools such as Gemini 3 Pro<\/strong> and Nano Banana Pro<\/strong> released recently, is closing the gap with OpenAI<\/strong> on the one hand, and becoming increasingly assertive on the hardware and infrastructure side on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google’s special artificial intelligence chips known as TPU (tensor processing unit)<\/strong> are becoming a serious alternative to Nvidia<\/a><\/em><\/strong>‘s artificial intelligence chips, which have been seen as almost the only option until now. As a matter of fact, information received this week revealed that Meta<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is preparing to invest billions of dollars to buy TPUs from Google. While this news had a doping effect on Alphabet<\/strong>‘s (Google’s parent company) shares, it caused a serious decline in Nvidia<\/strong> shares. Although Nvidia emphasized that its own GPU architecture is still a generation ahead of the sector to calm concerns after this news, this development showed that Google has started to strengthen its hand in this field as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chinese Open Source AI Models Surpass US Rivals in Global Download Counts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Chinese open-source artificial intelligence models<\/strong> have surpassed American open models in global download counts<\/strong> for the first time. According to a joint study by MIT<\/strong> and Hugging Face<\/strong>, while China-based AIs took 17 percent of the open model market, US open models remained at 15.8 percent. This change shows that China is starting to get ahead in at least this part of the race, thanks especially to the cost-effectiveness and frequent updates of DeepSeek<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Alibaba’s Qwen<\/strong> models. The fact that these open models are good enough to compete even with closed models like ChatGPT<\/strong> and come at very low costs seems to continue to make things difficult for Western artificial intelligence companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anthropic’s New Flagship Model Claude Opus 4.5 Takes the Top Spot in Performance Tests<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Anthropic<\/strong>, which has done remarkable work in the field of artificial intelligence, introduced its new flagship model Claude Opus 4.5<\/strong>. The new model stands out especially in software-oriented evaluations. Scoring 80.9 percent in the SWE-Bench Verified<\/strong> test, the highest score achieved so far, Opus 4.5 has thus surpassed both Gemini 3.0<\/strong> and GPT\u20115.1\u2011Codex\u2011Max<\/strong> models. The model also demonstrates superior performance in Terminal-bench, tool usage tests tau2-bench and MCP Atlas, and ARC-AGI 2<\/strong> and GPQA Diamond<\/strong> tests in the field of general problem solving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OpenAI’s First Hardware Prototype Is Almost Ready<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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OpenAI<\/strong>‘s first artificial intelligence device, prepared under the leadership of former Apple<\/strong> designer Jony Ive<\/strong>, is taking a more concrete form. Sam Altman<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Jony Ive announced at an event they attended this week that the design of the device is almost complete and the first hardware prototype<\/strong> will be ready soon. The device’s launch could happen within two years. The device, the details of which are largely kept secret, is rumored to be screenless<\/strong> and designed to be about the size of a smartphone. Describing the design as “simple, beautiful, and fun,” Altman stated that although the previous prototype created excitement in him, it did not arouse the desire to pick it up and touch it, whereas the final design gives exactly this feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OpenAI Adds Two Remarkable Features to ChatGPT<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Although OpenAI<\/strong> continues its work on its first AI device, its main focus continues to be ChatGPT<\/strong>. As a matter of fact, the company added two remarkable features to ChatGPT this week. First, the way the “voice mode”<\/strong> works in ChatGPT<\/a><\/em><\/strong>‘s web version and mobile application has been changed. With the new update, it is now possible to use voice chat directly within the existing conversation screen. Thus, users can see the written transcript of the chat and follow the visuals supporting what ChatGPT is explaining at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second innovation added to ChatGPT this week was the research tool called “Shopping Research”<\/strong>. Offering detailed shopping guides for ChatGPT users, this tool will bring together details such as featured products, key differences between products, and current retail information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DeepSeek Released Another Impressive AI: DeepSeek Math-V2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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DeepSeek<\/strong>, which showed that Chinese AIs can compete head-to-head with their Western rivals with the large language model it released at the beginning of this year, continues to produce remarkable work in the field of artificial intelligence. The company released a model playing for the top in mathematical reasoning<\/strong> this week. This new model, named DeepSeek Math-V2<\/strong>, has mathematical reasoning capabilities at a level that can win a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad<\/strong>. Tested with both the questions in this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad and the exam in the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad, Math-V2 managed to perform at the gold medal level in both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offering a performance equivalent to the smartest models of OpenAI<\/strong> and Google<\/strong> in this respect, DeepSeek Math-V2 was published as open-source<\/strong> on platforms such as Hugging Face<\/strong> and GitHub<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AI Tools Introduced This Week<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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