Top AI announcements from 2025: Nano Banana, Sora, Perplexity’s AI Browser and More

The year 2025 delivered some of the most talked-about launches in consumer AI. Google’s Nano Banana and Sora from OpenAI made image and video generation mainstream, while Perplexity’s Comet browser showed a new direction for AI-powered search. Chatbots such as Gemini and ChatGPT defined the conversation around creativity, reasoning and what “best AI prompts” c…