2025 AI Awards: Ranking the Best and Worst AI Companies This Year

Welcome to the first annual Limitless AI Awards show where we're ranking the biggest Winners and Losers in AI. You’re either getting the crown… or the dunce cap. 🏆🧢

2025 was pure AI chaos: surprise rookies, biggest flops, unhinged drama, and one hidden “Model of the Year” pick that might start a war in the group chat.

We go category-by-category: Rookie of the Year, Biggest Flop, Moat Builder, Model Most Likely to Make You Rich, Model of the Year, Biggest Loser, and AI Company of the Year, and we didn’t pre-align on answers… so the reveals are real. Drop your winners/losers in the comments and tell us what we got wrong (we can take it).

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Chapters

00:00 Introducing The Awards Show
04:34 Biggest Flop
07:41 Best Comeback Story
10:04 Most Likely To Make You Rich
12:32 Best AI Stock Of The Year
14:49 Moat Builder Of The Year
17:31 Biggest Waste Of Money
20:20 Most Unhinged Drama
23:54 Monopoly Man Award
26:10 Model Of The Year
29:31 Product Of The Year
32:20 Biggest Loser Of The Year
36:01 AI Model Of The Year

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RESOURCES

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Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213

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