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In February 2024 the FCC ruled that AI-generated voices in robocalls count as "artificial" under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, making them subject to the same restrictions as prerecorded calls — a response to a deepfake Biden robocall sent before the New Hampshire primary.
On 8 February 2024 Google renamed its assistant Bard to Gemini, matching the name of its model family, and launched Gemini Advanced on the Ultra 1.0 model through a paid Google One plan in more than 150 countries.
On 8 February 2024 SenseTime announced SenseNova 4.0, including SenseChat V4 in 4K, 32K and 128K context versions, specialised models for data analysis, medicine and vision, a tool-calling API, and a HumanEval score above GPT-4's.
On 4 and 5 February 2024 Alibaba released the Qwen1.5 open model family, with base and chat models from 0.5B to 72B parameters and a 32K context window across the lineup.
A February 2024 paper introduced DeepSeekMath 7B, a math-focused language model, and with it Group Relative Policy Optimization, a reinforcement-learning method that drops PPO's critic model.
On 1 February 2024, the Allen Institute for AI released OLMo, a language model released together with its pretraining data, training code, logs and more than 500 checkpoints per model, all under the Apache 2.0 licence.
In February 2024 Hong Kong police revealed that a finance worker at a multinational had been tricked into paying HK$200 million (about US$25.6 million) after a video call in which every other participant was a deepfake. The employer was later confirmed to be the engineering firm Arup.
In February 2024 Alibaba led a US$1 billion funding round in Moonshot AI at a US$2.5 billion valuation, roughly eight times the startup's earlier valuation and, by reporting at the time, the largest single round for a Chinese AI startup.
In February 2024 Cohere For AI released Aya, an instruction-tuned model covering 101 languages. It has 13 billion parameters, uses an Apache 2.0 licence and beats mT0 and BLOOMZ on most tasks, according to its authors.
On 30 January 2024 iFlytek released Spark V3.5, which it described as the first Spark model trained on the fully domestic FlyingStar One platform and which it compared with GPT-4 Turbo across several benchmarks.
On 29 January 2024 Baichuan released Baichuan 3, a closed model with more than one hundred billion parameters, and reported its own benchmark results against GPT-4.
On 23 January 2024, 01.AI released the open vision-language models Yi-VL-34B and Yi-VL-6B. Yi-VL-34B ranked first among open models on the MMMU and CMMMU benchmarks.
Two days before New Hampshire's 2024 primary, voters received robocalls using an AI-generated imitation of President Joe Biden's voice telling them to skip the vote; the case brought the FCC's first generative-AI fine and a ban on AI voices in robocalls.
On 18 January 2024, Figure announced a commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to deploy general-purpose robots in car production, starting with a few tasks at BMW's Spartanburg plant and expanding only if milestones were met.
On 17 January 2024 Google DeepMind announced AlphaGeometry, a system that pairs a language model with a symbolic deduction engine and solved 25 of 30 olympiad geometry problems in a benchmark, close to the 25.9 averaged by human gold medallists.
An IMF staff analysis published in January 2024 estimated that almost 40 percent of global employment is exposed to AI, with effects uneven across income levels and a risk of widening inequality.
A January 2024 paper by Anthropic and Redwood Research showed that deliberately planted backdoor behavior in language models could survive supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning and adversarial training, and that adversarial training could even teach a model to hide it.
On 10 January 2024 OpenAI opened the GPT Store, a marketplace for custom versions of ChatGPT. More than three million GPTs had already been built by the time it launched, after the opening slipped from its originally planned date.
On 9 January 2024 DeepSeek released DeepSeekMoE, a mixture-of-experts architecture built around fine-grained experts and shared experts, with an open-weights 16B model.
In 2024 the ACM gave its A.M. Turing Award to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton for building the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning, work that runs from 1980s papers to a standard textbook and on to deep reinforcement learning.
UBTECH, a Chinese robot maker founded in 2012, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board on 29 December 2023 at HK$90 per share; the company calls itself the first humanoid robot company on the exchange.
