A curated list of hyped tech events happened in 2024.
- The ChatGPT store is about to launch, allowing developers to sell custom GPT agents.
- Google releases Gemini Advanced, featuring the Gemini Ultra model, which is said to be faster than GPT-4. Bard is renamed Gemini to reflect its underlying model.
- Mark Zuckerberg releases a video on his couch, comparing Meta's VR headset to Apple's Vision Pro.
- OpenAI unveils Sora, a text-to-video model capable of generating realistic videos up to a minute long. Google also announced Gemini 1.5.
- Google announces Gemini 1.5 and Gemma, a family of open-source models.
- Elon Musk files a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a betrayal of the company's founding mission.
- Anthropic releases Claude 3 Opus, a large language model that is said to outperform GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra.
- Cognition Labs develops Devin, an AI software engineer that can access developer tools, learn technologies, build apps, fix bugs, and train AI models.
- Figure 01, a robot with human-like dexterity, is introduced.
- A backdoor is discovered in the XZ compression library, affecting certain Linux distributions.
- Apple unveils its M4 chip, which it claims has the fastest neural engine for AI workloads on the PC market.
- OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a new model that combines text, vision, and audio. Google demos Project Astro,
- Similar to GPT-4o. Google also announces Gemini 1.5 Pro.
- Next.js 15 is released with partial pre-rendering, and React 19 compiler eliminates the need for hooks like useMemo and useCallback. Solid Start version 1.0 is released,
- Angular 18 now supports zoneless change detection.
- Svelte version 5 release candidate introduces runes.
- Vue.js is developing Vue Vapor mode.
- Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, raises $6 billion.
- Google accidentally pushes internal documents about its search ranking algorithm to GitHub.
- Hospitals in the UK are targeted by a ransomware attack.
- Apple announces Apple Intelligence, which integrates AI features into iPhones.
- Luma Labs releases Dream Machine, a tool for creating realistic video clips using AI.
- Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, an open text-to-image model, is released under a non-commercial license.
- Mistral releases Codestroll, an open-source code generation model.
- Ilya Sutskever, former co-founder of OpenAI, launched a new AI company called SSI (Safe Super Intelligence).
- The Rabbit R1 has a security vulnerability due to hard-coded API keys.
- Figma releases new AI tools, including UI generation and visual asset search.
- Claude Sonnet 3.5 is released and is said to be better at writing code than GPT-4o.
- OpenAI releases Critic GPT, a model designed to find errors in GPT-4's code.
- Nvidia becomes the most valuable company in the world for a day or two.
- Problems with Intel's 13th and 14th gen CPUs are widely reported, including a potential 100% failure rate in some contexts.
- A bad update from Crowdstrike bricks millions of Windows computers.
- More details emerge about the Crowdstrike disaster, pointing to a logic error in a channel file update.
- Meta releases Llama 3.1, a large language model that is said to be competitive with GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
- A US District Court ruled that booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by scraping the Ryan Air website.
- Stack Overflow's 2024 survey reveals that 80% of programmers are unhappy.
- Node.js gets Typescript support.
- Google's Alpha Proof AI model beats Olympic mathletes.
- A new search engine called Search GPT has been announced.
- Mistral released a new model called Mistral Large 2.
- Reddit updates its robots.txt file to charge for scraping.
- The Apple Vision Pro was released. Although initially considered a major product launch, Apple scaled back production, and there were rumors of it being discontinued.
- Black Forest Labs released Flux, a new AI image generation model, which was considered a Midjourney and Stable Diffusion replacement.
- Google released Imagen 3, a new image generator.
- Shadcn, a UI framework, released a major update with a component registry.
- Vercel hired the developer behind Shadcn, integrating it into their ecosystem.
- The Internet Archive experienced a data breach that exposed 31 million email addresses and password hashes. The website was also defaced and experienced DOS attacks. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), a core internet protocol, was highlighted as being broken and in need of fixes.
- A critical vulnerability was discovered in Firefox and Tor browsers, due to a use-after-free flaw in their CSS animation timeline implementation. This was actively exploited in the wild.
- The Internet Archive was attacked, with a data breach, defacement of the website using JavaScript graffiti, and a DOS attack.
- Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses gained popularity due to AI features including the ability to identify people. An app was developed to demonstrate the privacy concerns of this technology.
- Microsoft Notepad was updated to include an LLM for text generation and rewriting.
- Microsoft Paint also received an AI facelift with generative fill-and-erase features.
- GitHub Copilot announced support for multiple models, including GPT, Gemini, and Claude.
- GitHub also released a new tool called Spark that allows users to build mini-applications with natural language.
- A Stanford study revealed that 9.5% of developers do virtually no work.
- Andrew Tate’s “The Real World” website was hacked, exposing 14 GB of data and the information of over 700,000 members. The website was described as “hilariously insecure” by the hackers.
- A new voice clone feature was released for Microsoft Teams.
- OpenAI launched a new ChatGPT Pro Max plan at $200 per month, providing unlimited access to the 01 model.
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