A timeline showcasing groundbreaking AI developments, releases, and breakthroughs in 2024. From revolutionary models to pivotal policy changes, this curated list captures the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence throughout the year.
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| Date | Title | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-15 | Gemini 1.5 | model | The model delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities. |
| 2024-05-12 | Devin | application | Setting a new state of the art on the SWE-bench coding benchmark. Meet Devin, the world's first fully autonomous AI software engineer. |
| 2024-05-13 | GPT-4o Launch | model | OpenAI launches GPT-4o ('o' for 'omni'), integrating text and images in a single model, marking a significant advancement in multimodal AI capabilities. |
| 2024-05-13 | Claude 3 Haiku | model | Anthropic unveils a sample haiku crafted by Claude 3, demonstrating the model's succinct and elegant language generation abilities. |
| 2024-05-13 | Meta Llama 3.1 Release | model | Meta unveils Llama 3.1, highlighting performance boosts and refined language understanding capabilities in this incremental update to the Llama series. |
| 2024-06-10 | Apple Intelligence | system | Apple's new AI system, Apple Intelligence, is announced at WWDC 2024. |
| 2024-07-18 | GPT-4o mini Release | model | OpenAI introduces GPT-4o mini, offering improved performance over GPT-3.5 Turbo at a lower cost, with a 128K context window and enhanced multilingual capabilities. |
| 2024-07-20 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | model | Anthropic showcases the poetic capacity of Claude 3.5 with a sonnet, reflecting the model's capability in structured creative expression. |
| 2024-08-01 | EU AI Act Enters into Force | policy | European Union enacts the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), the first-ever comprehensive legal framework on AI, addressing risks and setting requirements for AI developers and deployers. |
| 2024-08-19 | What can an 8-year-old build with AI? | application | A 8-year-old girl, daughter of Ricky Robinette, builds a full-stack website with Cursor in 45 minutes. |
| 2024-09-09 | GSA AI Framework | policy | General Services Administration finalizes and issues framework for prioritizing critical emerging technologies, including generative AI capabilities, in a secure cloud environment. |
| 2024-09-12 | o1 and o1-mini Release | model | OpenAI releases o1 and o1-mini, new large language models trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning tasks. |
| 2024-10-30 | OMB AI Acquisition Policy | policy | Office of Management and Budget releases M-24-18, a government-wide policy to advance responsible acquisition of AI by Federal agencies. |
| 2024-11-25 | Model Context Protocol | model | Anthropic introduces a protocol focusing on advanced context usage for large language models, improving conversational depth and safety measures. |
| 2024-12-01 | 12 Days of OpenAI | event | OpenAI launches '12 Days of Shipmas', a daily announcement event featuring new AI features and tools, including the introduction of ChatGPT Pro and Sora video generation model. |
| 2024-12-09 | Sora Video Generation Model | model | OpenAI introduces Sora, a video generation model that can create high-quality videos from text prompts. |
| 2024-12-10 | NeurIPS 2024 | event | Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, featuring breakthrough research in machine learning and artificial intelligence. |
| 2024-12-11 | Gemini 2.0 | model | Google's new AI model for the agentic era |
| 2024-12-18 | Github Copilot Free in VSCode | application | Copilot Free gives you the choice between Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI's GPT-4o model. |
| 2024-12-20 | o3 and o3-mini Preview | model | OpenAI previews o3 and o3-mini models, successors to the o1 series, claiming significant advancements in AI reasoning and interaction, with public launch expected in early 2025. |
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