2025 AI Year in Review: Is Claude Code AGI? DeepSeek, RL Breakthroughs & What's Next | Agent Talk #1
Factory Fireside by Peter Inge
Episode notes
π₯ Welcome to Agent Talk β a brand new series from Factory Fireside where our young engineers in the trenches building enterprise-scale agentic solutions break down what's really happening in AI.
In this debut episode, Kahn Nguyen, Neil Mazunder, and Harry Nguyen dive deep into the AI developments that actually mattered in 2025 β and what turned out to be just noise.
What we cover: β Is Opus 4.5 + Claude Code basically AGI? (Hot take alert πΆοΈ) β How reinforcement learning became THE word of 2025 β DeepSeek's papers that shook Silicon Valley β The shift from scaling laws to post-training optimisation β Why Chinese labs are outpacing American research β "Code is solved, but software isn't" β what this means for builders β Our predictions for 2026 and the next age of AI research
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