Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Released
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash with native multimodal output and agentic capabilities. A significant leap toward models that can perceive, reason, and act across all modalities simultaneously.
Read announcementA chronicle of breakthrough model releases, groundbreaking research, and the relentless pursuit of artificial general intelligence.
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The year reasoning became real. o1 showed that AI could think step-by-step, while multimodal models merged text, image, and voice into unified intelligence.
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash with native multimodal output and agentic capabilities. A significant leap toward models that can perceive, reason, and act across all modalities simultaneously.
Read announcementAnthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku, a faster and more cost-effective model that maintains strong performance while being significantly more affordable.
OpenAI releases o1-preview, a new reasoning model that thinks before answering. This marks a paradigm shift from pure pattern matching to deliberative reasoning.
OpenAI announces GPT-4o with native audio, vision, and text capabilities unified in a single model. The "o" stands for "omni."
Meta releases Llama 3 (8B and 70B) with improved performance and a new 8K context window, continuing the open-source revolution.
Anthropic releases Claude 3 (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus) with Opus achieving state-of-the-art on multiple benchmarks.
Google announces Gemini 1.5 Pro with a breakthrough 1 million token context window, enabling entirely new use cases.
The year of the foundation model wars. GPT-4 set a new bar, Llama 2 democratized open source, and multimodality went mainstream.
OpenAI releases GPT-4, a large multimodal model accepting image and text inputs. It demonstrated unprecedented reasoning capabilities and became the new benchmark for AI performance across domains.
Read researchGoogle DeepMind launches Gemini, a natively multimodal model family trained from the ground up to understand text, images, audio, and video.
OpenAI announces GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context, lower pricing, and JSON mode at DevDay.
Meta releases Llama 2 (7B, 13B, 70B) under a permissive license for research and commercial use, democratizing access to frontier-class models.
Anthropic releases Claude 2 with improved coding, math, and reasoning capabilities.
The year everything changed. ChatGPT arrived and the world would never look at AI the same way again.
OpenAI releases ChatGPT, bringing conversational AI to mainstream attention. It reached 100 million users in just two months, becoming the fastest-growing consumer application in history and sparking the generative AI revolution.
Read announcementMajor model releases have increased from 1 in 2022 to 7 in 2024, with breakthrough capabilities arriving every few months.
By 2024, all major labs have shifted to multimodal-first architectures. Text-only models are becoming the exception.
o1's chain-of-thought approach marks a paradigm shift from pattern matching to deliberative reasoning.