# AI Year in Review 2025 | The Year I Gave My Brain Extra Processors

> A scroll-through story of what happens when you spend a year designing, coding, composing, and thinking with machines.

By Ionã Oliveira. Canonical page: https://www.aiwrapped25.com/ (HTML). This document is the Markdown representation of that page.

## By the numbers

| Metric | 2025 |
| --- | --- |
| Chats with AI | 6,500+ |
| AI images generated | 27,000+ |
| Video clips generated | 2,000+ |
| Sound effects | 92 |
| AI voices | 31 |
| Music tracks | 68 |
| Apps shipped | 97 |
| Tokens used | millions |

## Highlights

In 2025 I started 6,500+ chats with AI. Less conversation, more factory line: planning prompts, making tools, designing products, and shipping more than ever.

## Over 27,000 AI images

Every promising thought became a frame. Midjourney built the atmosphere, Nano Banana fixed the pixels: Midjourney for mood, Nano for surgery.

When images are limitless, the only constraint left is vision. Decisions start with a frame, and every idea gets infinite versions.

## A year told in 2,000+ clips

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth millions. Concepts turned into loops, reels and trailers so I could watch them move, not just explain.

## Nothing ships on mute

Looks are great, but silence kills the vibe, so I started designing in stereo. 92 effects, 31 voices, and 68 tracks gave every prototype a pulse instead of dead air.

## 97 apps and a very busy deploy button

Google AI Studio, Skip, Lovable, and Bolt turned prompts into live builds instead of another pile of nice ideas.

## Millions of tokens, one agenda: keep shipping

With Cursor, Kiro, Claude Code and Kilo Code, the models took the grind and the code went straight to production.

## The tools that survived my attention span

I tested a ridiculous amount of AI. Most were a fun weekend. A few earned permanent residency: Suno, Midjourney, Groq, Claude, Perplexity, LM Studio, Gemini, Bolt, ElevenLabs, Ollama, Hugging Face, Cursor, and OpenAI.

## Tools of the year

| Category | Winner | Tagline | Nominees |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daily drivers | ChatGPT | Always open | ChatGPT, Comet, Claude App, T3 Chat, LM Studio |
| Image models | Midjourney v7 | Taste Engine | Midjourney v7, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-Image-1.5, Flux 2, Seedream 4.5 |
| Video models | Google Veo 3.1 | Trailer Machine | Google Veo 3.1, Kling 2.6, Sora 2, Wan 2.6, MiniMax 2.3 |
| Audio tools | Wispr Flow | Dictation King | Wispr Flow, ElevenLabs, Suno, Udio, Mubert |
| Creative tools | Midjourney | Art Director | Midjourney, Flora Fauna, Higgsfield, Recraft, Krea |
| Coding tools | Cursor | Pair Programmer | Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, Codex CLI, Kilo Code |
| Vibe coding | Google AI Studio | Prototype Factory | Google AI Studio, Skip, Lovable, Bolt, v0 |

## That's all, folks

If you made it this far, congratulations. You just binge-watched my year. See you later, with even fewer excuses. See you in 2026.

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