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The 4 biggest AI stories from 2024 and one key prediction for 2025
By all measures, 2024 was the biggest year for artificial intelligence yet — at least when it comes to the commercialization.
The large language model (LLM) boom spurred on by ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022 showed no signs of slowing down, with numerous new LLMs introduced by not just OpenAI and stalwart tech giants such as Microsoft, Meta and Google, but also scores of other startups and individual developers. In the comeback story of the year, Google’s Gemini series of AI models that were once mocked for their strange image generations and criticized for being overly “woke” came back roaring with new, more powerful versions that now top the third-party performance benchmark charts and are increasingly appealing to developers and businesses. Building upon these advancements, 2025 is poised to witness the proliferation of AI-generated content across business and consumer domains, especially as everyone from OpenAI to Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, even Elon Musk’s xAI now has AI image generators built in to their offerings.
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