The agent era is here. Anthropic released the Claude Agent SDK on New Year's Eve, giving developers the same architecture that powers Claude Code. Build autonomous agents in just 10 lines of code.

Meanwhile, the Claude vs ChatGPT debate continues. More developers are switching to Claude Max for coding and research — the momentum is shifting.

OpenAI's hunger for compute is insatiable. Reports suggest they could consume up to 40% of global DRAM output. The infrastructure race is getting serious.

What a year for Claude. From extended thinking in February to the Max plan in April — 2025 was Anthropic's breakout year. Here's the full timeline.

Useful finds from the timeline. A fast PDF extraction library, new image models from Qwen, and some wisdom to start the year.