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Each month, we compile significant news, trends, and happenings in AI, providing detailed summaries with key points in bullet form for concise yet complete understanding.
This page features AI News for December 2024. At the end, you will find links to our archives for previous months
Summaries presented here were created in collaboration with ChatGPT.
AI NEWS December 2024
OpenAI Halts Sora AI Amid Leak By Protesting Artists Group
OpenAI suspended its Sora AI tool following a leak by protesting artists. The controversy ignites debates on unpaid labor, restrictive practices, and ethical AI development.
Anthropic’s Open-Source MCP: A Universal Framework for Seamless AI-Data Integration
Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) sets a new standard for AI-data integration, providing developers with an open-source framework to seamlessly connect AI systems to diverse datasets for enhanced functionality and scalability.
Fugatto AI by Nvidia: A Breakthrough AI for Audio, Music, and Speech Manipulation
Nvidia’s Fugatto AI redefines audio creation with cutting-edge features like unheard-of sound generation, voice transformations, and dynamic soundscapes.
Amazon and Anthropic Strengthen Ties with Expanded $8B Partnership
Amazon and Anthropic strengthen ties with expanded $8B partnership, integrating Claude AI models on AWS and collaborating on Trainium chips.
Nvidia Announces Record Performance: 94% Revenue Growth – $35B Q3 Earnings
Nvidia posts $35.1 billion in Q3 FY25 revenue, beating expectations with 94% year-over-year growth. Learn how AI demand drives its record performance.
Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Challenges OpenAI with Groundbreaking Reasoning Model
Discover how DeepSeek’s R1 model leverages test-time compute to challenge OpenAI, advancing reasoning AI while navigating China’s regulatory landscape.
Microsoft and Atom Computing to Launch 1,000-Qubit Quantum Computer
Microsoft and Atom Computing will launch a commercial quantum computer in 2025, bringing reliable logical qubits closer to commercial applications.
Mistral Challenges OpenAI and Google with Pixtral Large and Upgraded Free, Feature-Rich Le Chat
Mistral AI’s Pixtral Large and Le Chat platform bring advanced multimodal AI capabilities, redefining AI accessibility and competition.
APEC Talks: Biden and Xi on Trade, AI, and Strategic Stability
In their final meeting, Biden and Xi reached a landmark agreement on AI in nuclear weapons while addressing trade, espionage, and geopolitical tensions ahead of Trump’s presidency.