2024 in artificial intelligence
The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in artificial intelligence.
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Events
[edit]February
[edit]- 15 February – OpenAI introduces Sora, a text-to-video model capable of generating videos up to one minute long.[1]
- 15 February – Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 1.5, a multimodal AI model with a context window of up to one million tokens.[2]
- 22 February – Google suspends Gemini's ability to generate images of people after the model produces racially diverse depictions of historically white subjects, including U.S. Founding Fathers and Wehrmacht soldiers. Sundar Pichai calls the outputs "completely unacceptable" in an internal memo; the feature does not return until August.[3][4]
March
[edit]May
[edit]- 8 May – Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3, an AI model capable of predicting the structure and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA, and other biomolecules.[6]
- 13 May – OpenAI introduces GPT-4o, a multimodal model capable of reasoning across audio, vision, and text in real time.[7]
- 14 May – Google introduces AI Overviews to Google Search in the United States.[8]
- 14–17 May – OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever resigns, followed by alignment lead Jan Leike, who states publicly that the company's "safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products". OpenAI dissolves the Superalignment team, formed less than a year earlier with a pledge of 20% of the company's compute, and distributes its members across other groups.[9][10]
July
[edit]- 25 July – Google DeepMind announces that AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 together solved four of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, comparable to a silver-medal standard, and the first time an AI system reached medal level at the competition. [11]
August
[edit]- 1 August – The Artificial Intelligence Act, a European Union regulation establishing a common regulatory and legal framework for AI, comes into force, with obligations phased in over the following three years.[12]
October
[edit]- 8 October – The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks".[13]
- 9 October – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded half to David Baker for computational protein design and half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind for protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. It is the first time AI-related work has been recognised in two Nobel categories in the same year.[13][14]
December
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Video generation models as world simulators". OpenAI. 15 February 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5". Google. 15 February 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures". CNBC. 22 February 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
- ↑ "Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's AI image results "offended our users"". NPR. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
- ↑ "Introducing the next generation of Claude". Anthropic. 4 March 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules". Google. 8 May 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "Hello GPT-4o". OpenAI. 13 May 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ Milmo, Dan (14 May 2024). "Google rolls out AI-generated, summarized search results in US". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks, less than one year after announcing it". CNBC. 17 May 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
- ↑ "OpenAI's long-term safety team disbands". Axios. 17 May 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
- ↑ "Olympiad-level formal mathematical reasoning with reinforcement learning". Nature. 12 November 2025. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
- ↑ "AI Act enters into force" (Press release). Brussels: European Commission. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- 1 2 "All Nobel Prizes 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
- ↑ "AI pioneers win 2024 Nobel prizes". Nature Machine Intelligence. November 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
- ↑ Robison, Kyle; Roth, Emma; Lawler, Richard (9 December 2024). "OpenAI has finally released Sora". The Verge. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ Edwards, Benj; Orland, Kyle (10 December 2024). "Ten months after first tease, OpenAI launches Sora video generation publicly". Ars Technica. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub". ARC Prize. 20 December 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
- ↑ "OpenAI's o3 shows remarkable progress on ARC-AGI, sparking debate on AI reasoning". VentureBeat. 22 December 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2026.