A year ago, it sometimes felt like AI had spread everywhere in some fashion, but it was only a preview of how AI burst into people's lives, for good or ill. It would take a whole series of books to cover every transformative update, flashy launch, and embarrassing misstep made by the biggest AI brands: 's , Gemini, and Intelligence, let alone every single AI developer. Still, there are some key highlights worth remembering before 2025 again upends the landscape.
ChatGPT's endless upgrades It’s hard to talk about AI in 2024 without putting ChatGPT at the center. OpenAI seemed determined to stay in the spotlight, releasing one game-changing update after another. In May, the introduction of GPT-4o, followed by the leaner -4o, kicked off the multimodal evolution of ChatGPT in handling handle text, images, audio, and video.
The December release of the o1 model brought a new level of reasoning, with sharper and more insightful answers. Proving to be an invaluable tool for everything from coding challenges to creative brainstorming. ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode brought new vocal interactions to ChatGPT with a range of lifelike voices – .
If you weren't talking through the app, OpenAI even set up the 1-800-CHATGPT toll-free hotline to call and interact with ChatGPT. Filmmakers spent most of the year eagerly awaiting the arrival of , OpenAI’s text-to-video model. While it only recently became available to non-professional filmmakers, Sora's ability to make animated videos is no.
