Anthropic releases the Claude 3 model family
Anthropic launches Claude 3 in three models - Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku - which it says set new industry benchmarks across cognitive tasks and add vision.
MethaneSAT launches to map methane leaks from space
In March 2024 an environmental nonprofit launched MethaneSAT, using machine learning to map oil and gas methane leaks worldwide.
Cognition Introduces Devin, the AI Software Engineer
In March 2024 Cognition unveiled Devin, billed as the first AI software engineer, scoring 13.86% on SWE-bench.
Cerebras WSE-3: The Largest AI Chip
Cerebras's third wafer-scale engine packed 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 cores onto a single dinner-plate-sized chip.
OpenAI partners with Le Monde and Prisa Media
OpenAI's deals with France's Le Monde and Spain's Prisa Media extended its publisher-licensing program into French- and Spanish-language news.
xAI open-sources the Grok-1 weights
xAI released the weights of Grok-1, a 314-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, under the Apache 2.0 license in March 2024.
Blackwell and the AI chip race
Nvidia unveils its Blackwell GPU platform at GTC 2024 as H100 demand explodes, turning AI compute into a capital-intensive race and lifting Nvidia to trillions.
YouTube requires disclosure of altered or synthetic content (2024)
YouTube began requiring creators to label realistic videos made with AI or other altered or synthetic media.
Google's AI predicts extreme floods in ungauged rivers
Google's 2024 Nature paper showed an AI flood model giving five-day warnings in ungauged basins, powering free forecasts in over 80 countries.
Tennessee's ELVIS Act protects voice against AI cloning
In March 2024 Tennessee enacted the ELVIS Act, the first US law to make voice a protected property right against AI voice cloning.
OMB Issues Federal AI Governance Guidance M-24-10 (2024)
The US Office of Management and Budget directs federal agencies to appoint Chief AI Officers and apply risk safeguards to rights- and safety-impacting AI.
Plandex launches as terminal coding agent for large multi-file tasks
Plandex released as an open-source terminal coding agent with a diff sandbox and 2M-token context window, designed for large real-world development tasks spanning many files.
Udio launches an AI music generation app
Ex-DeepMind researchers launched Udio in April 2024, a text-to-music app that produces a fully mastered track in under a minute from a prompt.
Boston Dynamics retires hydraulic Atlas for an all-electric humanoid
Boston Dynamics retired its hydraulic Atlas and unveiled a fully electric Atlas built for real-world commercial work, starting with Hyundai.
GitHub Announces Copilot Workspace
In April 2024 GitHub previewed Copilot Workspace, a Copilot-native environment that turns an issue into a plan, code, and tests.
OpenAI and the Financial Times announce a content partnership
The Financial Times licensed its journalism to OpenAI for use in ChatGPT, with attribution and links, while collaborating on AI products.
AlphaFold 3 extends structure prediction to DNA, RNA and ligands
AlphaFold 3, from DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, predicts the joint structure of proteins with DNA, RNA, ligands and ions in one model.
OpenAI releases GPT-4o
OpenAI releases GPT-4o, an 'omni' model trained end-to-end across text, vision, and audio that can hold real-time spoken conversations.
Google DeepMind launches Veo, its rival to Sora in AI video
Google announced Veo in May 2024 and Veo 2 in December, an AI video generator reaching 4K resolution with watermarked output.
Google DeepMind unveils Project Astra
At Google I/O, Google DeepMind reveals Project Astra, a research prototype for a real-time, multimodal universal AI assistant that sees and converses live.
Google Trillium (TPU v6)
Google's sixth-generation TPU, Trillium, raised per-chip compute 4.7x over v5e and improved energy efficiency by 67 percent.
Colorado Enacts the First US State AI Discrimination Law (2024)
Colorado signs SB24-205, the first US state law requiring developers and deployers to guard against algorithmic discrimination in high-risk AI.
Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework
DeepMind's protocol for staying ahead of severe risks from frontier models, using Critical Capability Levels and tiered mitigations.
Frontier AI Safety Commitments at the Seoul Summit (2024)
Sixteen leading AI companies pledge to publish safety frameworks and define risk thresholds beyond which they will not develop or deploy models.
Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model
Anthropic used sparse autoencoders to extract millions of interpretable features from production model Claude 3 Sonnet, shown in the Golden Gate Claude example.
Microsoft makes Khanmigo for Teachers free for US teachers
In May 2024 Microsoft and Khan Academy made the Khanmigo AI teaching assistant free to all US teachers, with Microsoft donating the Azure compute.
The Seoul AI Summit and Frontier Safety Commitments (2024)
At the May 2024 AI Seoul Summit, sixteen leading AI companies signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments, pledging to publish frameworks with risk thresholds.
OpenAI and News Corp sign a landmark multi-year deal
News Corp's deal brought the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and other titles into ChatGPT in OpenAI's largest reported publisher pact.
SWE-agent introduces Agent-Computer Interface for autonomous bug fixing
Princeton and Stanford researchers published SWE-agent, introducing the Agent-Computer Interface concept and demonstrating that an LLM could autonomously resolve real GitHub issues end-to-end.
The Maven Smart System reaches the field
In 2024 the US Army awarded Palantir a major contract for the Maven Smart System, the operational AI tool grown from Project Maven.
Aurora, a foundation model for the Earth system
Microsoft's Aurora, a 1.3-billion-parameter atmospheric foundation model, forecasts weather, air quality, and ocean waves about 5,000 times faster than NWP.
Apple Intelligence brings generative AI to the OS
At WWDC 2024 Apple announced Apple Intelligence, building generative AI into iPhone, iPad, and Mac as a default OS feature, with ChatGPT integrated into Siri.
Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Artifacts
Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a mid-tier model it says beats Claude 3 Opus at twice the speed, alongside the Artifacts workspace.
Record labels sue AI music generators Suno and Udio
In June 2024 the major record labels, via the RIAA, sued AI music services Suno and Udio for copying sound recordings to train their models.
Agility's Digit becomes the first humanoid in a commercial RaaS deal
GXO signed a multi-year deal to deploy Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid, billed as the first formal commercial Robots-as-a-Service contract for humanoids.
Google Translate adds 110 languages in its largest expansion
In 2024 Google used its PaLM 2 model to add 110 languages to Translate at once, reaching speakers of about 8% of the world.
Cloudflare adds one-click blocking of AI scrapers
In 2024 Cloudflare gave every customer, including free ones, a one-click toggle to block AI crawlers and scrapers across their websites.
Doe v. GitHub: the Copilot copyright case narrows
A federal judge dismissed the DMCA claims against GitHub Copilot, narrowing the first major lawsuit over AI trained on open-source code.
The EU Adopts the AI Act (2024)
The European Union adopts Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the world's first comprehensive law governing artificial intelligence through a risk-based framework.
Tidal graduates from Google X to bring AI to fish farming
In July 2024 Google X's Tidal moonshot spun out independently, using underwater computer vision to monitor and feed farmed fish.
First AI Mathematical Olympiad progress prize
Team Numina won the first AIMO progress prize on Kaggle, with an open 7B model that solved 29 of 50 hidden olympiad-style math problems.
Meta releases Llama 3.1 405B, the first frontier-level open model
Meta released Llama 3.1 in July 2024, including a 405-billion-parameter model it called the first frontier-level open source AI model.
Mistral AI releases Mistral Large 2
Mistral AI ships Mistral Large 2, a 123-billion-parameter model with a 128K context window that it says rivals GPT-4o, Claude 3 Opus, and Llama 3 405B.
AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reach IMO silver-medal level
DeepMind's AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 scored 28 of 42 on the 2024 IMO problems, one point short of gold and a first for AI at that level.
Copyright Office AI Report Part 1: Digital Replicas
The US Copyright Office recommended a new federal law against unauthorized AI-generated digital replicas of a person's voice or likeness.
NO FAKES Act: a proposed federal digital-replica right
Senators introduced the NO FAKES Act to create a federal right against unauthorized AI-generated replicas of a person's voice or likeness.
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX.1
On August 1, 2024, much of the original Stable Diffusion team launched Black Forest Labs with FLUX.1, a 12B model that reset the open-image bar.
Replit launches autonomous AI Agent for full app generation and deployment
Replit launched its AI Agent, enabling users to describe applications in natural language and have an autonomous agent build, debug, and deploy working software in Replit's cloud environment.