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2025 ends with OpenAI as a hero: between TIME's appointment, the launch of GPT Graphics, and a multi-billion dollar deal with Disney for content.

Among the prominent figures are the leaders and pioneers who have shaped this growth, which also contributes to the great investment in the economy and the central geopolitical role of technology.This speed has brought extraordinary results but also new challenges, including misinformation, ethical concerns, mental health risks and issues of social inequality.This is a story.

Time named "AI Architects" Man of 2025

The most interesting thing is not only who TIME chooses, but also how it shows us.One of the covers depicts the scene of 'Dinner at the top of a skyscraper': only instead of workers sitting on the beam, there are eight figures who are literally and figuratively erecting the pillars of this new era in 2025.They are not just “the face of AI” in a romantic sense, they are its supply chain: chips, models, platforms, products, distribution.infrastructure, from “let's see what happens” to “see what it can do in applications, services, businesses, everyday life”.

In the famous beam are: Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Lisa Su (AMD), Elon Musk (xAI), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), Dario Amodei (Antropa) and Fei-Fei Li (Stanford).Eight very different profiles, but united as pieces of the same architecture: those who control the computing power, those who build the models, those who put them in the hands of billions of people, those who push the cultural and political accelerator.

TIME begins in the story of Jensen Huang: because without the "base", Chips, the whole castle will not last.And then it expands its scope: ChatGPT surpassing 800 million users per week, companies reorganizing around agents, governments using AI as geopolitical leverage.This is a recognition that is not like a "party" award, but an observation: in 2025, artificial intelligence will not be the theme.It's the context.

In an interview with Business Insider, he recalled that Google was a pioneer for a long time: it invented Transformers and worked on big chatbots when they were not yet fashionable.But then, fearing reputational risks after cases like Microsoft's racist Tey chatbot, it erred on the side of caution and let ChatGPT get ahead of itself.Here is the news.

Red Alert, came right back

And that's the color red we talked about at the beginning. It's less Christmas red and more of a "warning siren": Code Red Until a few weeks ago, the mood around OpenAI wasn't good, it was in attack mode because of Google's progress and the feeling that the technological distance was closing. "Everybody at War Station" Sam Altman reportedly announced a code red internally. It told people to focus their attention on ChatGPT because of the age of convenience. "Untouchable" was coming to an end andThey really succeeded. A few days ago, OpenAI introduced the latest GPT 5.2 model and a few hours ago the latest model for visualization, GPT Image.

The second arrives exactly in the area where Google just became a peacock with Nano Banana: image creation and editing.And here's the irony: Nano Banana looked like a banana thrown on stage to trip others.OpenAI responds with ChatGPT Images as someone who looks at you and says: yes, we thought about this too... and now we put it on the Internet.

OpenAI introduces a new model (also via APIs like GPT image 1.5) that goes straight to the pain: fine-tuning without removing the rest.Translated: when you want to change the details, you cannot find another person, another light, another scene.In addition, it promises to render images 4 times faster, and above all, it introduces a new "home" for images in ChatGPT (only the "ask and hope" section in chat) no).

Time Makes You Smile: Nano Banana Pro Announced November 20, 2025;OpenAI begins its update on December 16, 2025."After seeing the banana" We don't know if they worked day and night, but if this isn't proof that the fear of being left behind is real...it's just in time for Christmas.

OpenAI releases a new version of ChatGPT Images, based on its new "groundbreaking" image generation model, with the goal of bringing the results closer to what the user had in mind when creating from scratch and when editing the image.Watch the video here.

Sam pulls his sleeve

As a good player, Sam has a few tricks up his sleeve to pull out at the right time.Two pieces of news did not go unnoticed and, if read carefully, tell us some background and some indications about the trajectory that OpenAI has taken.

1. OpenAI hires CEO of Slack

The first movement is not a product: it is human and it is as difficult as changing gearboxes.Denise Dresser is the new head of revenue at OpenAI.The dresser is not from the "lab world": it is from a world where technology has to be routine, budget, contract, actual adoption.For 14 years he did his job from Salesforce to lead senior positions.Then in 2023 he became the CEO of Slack, pushing more and more towards the concept of "AI in the workflow." OpenAI told the market that it is not enough to be the most talked about AI company, we want to be the most accepted company.

2. Disney to invest 1 billion in OpenAI

The job with Disney to move out from the technology in the pop culture.The heart of work is a three-year license to make the videos using the more than 200 from the universal (disney diver, stick, the fruits.In the same, Disney has made a balance of $ 1 billion in.

This is the first time an imaginary giant has entered the room and tried to impose rules, regulations and restrictions that can be created.Disney signed a deal with OpenAI the day after Google sent a formal warning, accusing its models of imitating Disney characters without permission.

Disney clarified that the deal does not include endorsements or talent voices.The company will be an important customer of its APIs to develop new products and tools, including Disney+.Here's the news.

Curtain and end

If 2025 has taught us anything, it's that AI is now in flux, and every week it moves a little bit of reality a little further.Looking to 2026, the question is not whether something will happen, but what will make the most noise.

- Will OpenAI really build the announced device with Jony Ive?

- Anthropic Mun gera IPO?

- Will Google take a firm lead?

- Will Nvidia be able to find a balance between the United States and China?

We will see!Thanks for keeping the conversation going even when AI seems to be working too fast for everyone.

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