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2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

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2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

Costs remain a huge concern for o3, as it consumes substantial computational resources. But with unprecedented scores on intelligence benchmarks, many folks argue it’s the beginning of AGI.

And that’s all I have for 2024’s innovation, regulation, and intelligence. What was your favorite AI moment from the last year? Let me know in the comments below this thread.

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

9. Lastly let’s talk about the company you can’t keep out of any AI conversation: OpenAI. In September, @sama announced o1: their series of most capable and aligned models. The model featured chain-of-thought reasoning to tackle complex problems.

But arguably the biggest AI moment of 2024 was..? OpenAI sharing o3’s early version!

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

8. After months of embarrassment, in December, Google regained some credibility. It released the Gemini 2.0 model with multimodal capabilities—that can function as an autonomous agent.

Google also shared a huge quantum computing breakthrough with its new chip: Willow. But experts point out that it lacks real-world uses as of now.

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

Meanwhile in the US: Trump announced Sriram Krishnan (a former general partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz) as a senior policy advisor for AI. Mind you, he’s at the center of an ongoing H1B visa controversy. But the white house seems all in on fostering AI.

7. Autonomous robots also briefly entered the fray. Tesla's Optimus debuted as a humanoid assistant. Their real-world readiness remains debatable, but we may see more public facing roles by robots in 2025.

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

But the open-source AI arms race endured into December. Chinese firm, DeepSeek, launched V3. This open-source model is significantly more powerful than Llama 3.1.

6. In August, the EU AI Act—the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation—came into force. It sets a global precedent for safeguards against AI. But critics worry about overregulation stifling innovation.

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

One player pours money. The others have to keep up. Oh, and as we're talking about big tech, how can we miss the biggest social media company?

5. In July, Meta consolidated its open-source AI authority. The model reached the frontier of AI capabilities.

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

Big tech’s capex heads toward a staggering $200B in 2025.

Why do the investments keep escalating? For one, there’s an exponential rise in AI demand. They need billions of dollars in GPUs, AI chips, and cloud infrastructure. But sequoia pointed out that the rivalry between Microsoft, Amazon, and Google is game theoretic.

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

But Apple rolled out only a few features teased at the launch event of its device-based AI. Criticism ensued with some people calling it "most overhyped and truly worthless rollouts in tech history"

3. Musk sued OpenAI. Twice in the year! Simultaneously, AI copyright lawsuits kept mounting. Some highlights: - Sony Music, Universal Music Group, & Warner sued Suno and Udio - Group of Voice actors sued Eleven Labs - Three authors sued Anthropic - Dow Jones and NY Post sued Perplexity

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵

The chip cemented Nvidia as the backbone of AI infrastructure. It accounted for billions of dollars of sales from the hyperscalers. And pushed the NVD stock to more than 170% growth in 2024.

2. In June, Apple threw its hat in the AI ring. Announcing Apple Intelligence, promising to set a “new standard for privacy in AI.” Launching across its range of devices!

2024 was AI's record breaking year—from Nvidia’s $3T leap to OpenAI’s AGI moment. Here are the nine most defining AI events from 2024 🧵