By Ricardo Amaro
December 17, 2025
If 2023 was the year of "Chat" and 2024 was the year of "Hype," 2025 will be remembered as the year of Commoditization.
For the past twelve months, we've been warning about the dangers of "renting your brain" to Silicon Valley. We started this year fearing that the gap between proprietary models (like GPT-4) and open weights would widen into an unbridgeable chasm. We feared that European SMEs would be forever shackled to API endpoints, bleeding data and IP in exchange for intelligence.
But... fortunately we were wrong.
As we close out 2025, the "intelligence...