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On 15 October 2024 Anthropic published version 2.0 of its Responsible Scaling Policy. It added capability thresholds for autonomous AI research and development and for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons assistance, and made Jared Kaplan the Responsible Scaling Officer.
In October 2024 Google and Kairos Power agreed on a path to deploy 500 MW of advanced nuclear power in the United States by 2035, with a first plant by 2030 — the first US corporate deal covering multiple deployments of one advanced reactor design.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to David Baker for computational protein design and, jointly, to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind for AI-based protein structure prediction. The Academy said their work solved a 50-year-old problem.
On 8 October 2024 the Nobel Prize in Physics went to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational work on artificial neural networks, the systems behind much of modern machine learning.
On 4 October 2024 Meta premiered Movie Gen, a set of media foundation models that generate video, images and sound. Meta did not release the models, saying it would first work with filmmakers and creators.
On 2 October 2024 Black Forest Labs released FLUX1.1 [pro], a faster version of its text-to-image model, and made its BFL API generally available at 4 cents per image.
In October 2024 Cohere's research lab released Aya Expanse in 8B and 32B sizes. The models cover 23 languages, including Japanese, and were compared with several rival models in judged win-rate tests.
In September 2024, NHTSA announced a consent order requiring Cruise to pay a $1.5 million penalty and accept two years of stricter crash reporting after it filed incomplete reports.
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 1047 on 29 September 2024. The bill would have required safety safeguards for large AI models and created a Board of Frontier Models.
In September 2024 the Hugging Face Hub passed 1 million downloadable public models for the first time; by October 2025 it held more than 2 million.
On 25 September 2024 Ai2 released Molmo, a family of open vision-language models ranging from MolmoE-1B to Molmo-72B that can point at things in images; Ai2 said Molmo-72B ranked just behind GPT-4o in human preference.
On 25 September 2024 Meta released Llama 3.2, which added image understanding to the Llama family with 11B and 90B vision models and added small 1B and 3B text models for phones and other edge devices.
In September 2024 Constellation signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft, its largest ever, paving the way to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 — renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center — with operation targeted for 2028.
On 19 September 2024 Alibaba released Qwen2.5 with 13 open-weight models. The family was trained on up to 18 trillion tokens and supports 128K tokens of context in more than 29 languages.
In September 2024, Runway and Lionsgate announced a partnership to build a custom AI video model trained on Lionsgate's library of more than 20,000 film and TV titles, for use only by Lionsgate-affiliated filmmakers.
On 17 September 2024 Mistral AI released Pixtral 12B, an open-weight model pairing a 400M vision encoder with a 12B decoder and scoring 52.5% on MMMU and 90.7 on DocVQA.
On September 12, 2024, OpenAI introduced o1 and reported that it averaged 83% on AIME 2024 when 64 samples were combined, versus 12% for GPT-4o, plus a Codeforces Elo of 1673.
On 12 September 2024 OpenAI introduced o1-preview and o1-mini, its first reasoning models, designed to think longer before responding. The full o1 followed in December 2024, and Microsoft made the preview models available on Azure the same day.
On 11 September 2024 Google added Audio Overviews to NotebookLM, turning a user's sources into a spoken discussion between two AI hosts; interactive questions came in December 2024 and Video Overviews in July 2025.
On 5 September 2024 DeepSeek merged its chat and coder models into DeepSeek-V2.5, which kept both conversational ability and code processing and went live on its web chat and API.
In September 2024 Tencent introduced its next-generation Hunyuan Turbo model and made it available on Tencent Cloud, claiming large efficiency gains and parity with GPT-4o on various benchmarks.
