In 2024, you couldn’t escape hearing about AI. From smartphones to wearables to the smart home, it seemed every tech company wanted to pitch their next great AI innovation.
2024 in review: AI
In 2024, AI was everywhere. Let’s look back at some of the biggest moments from this year.
The year was filled with impressive technological leaps and useful new tools, endless hype and frequent misfires, and implications for the future that range from truly exciting to unpredictable. This is the year we got a sense of what AI might actually do — and just how unprepared we still are to grapple with it.
Here at The Verge, we thought a lot about AI’s impacts on the industries and people we cover. From strikes across industries like gaming to its impact on our climate to the desire for policy protections for Hollywood and the AI Act, AI is already reshaping nearly every area of our lives.
So let’s take a look back at some of the biggest, boldest, weirdest AI stories from the last year — and look ahead to what could be in store for 2025.
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images
AI lookback
- Welcome to the AI gadget era
- Agents are the future AI companies promise — and desperately need
- How AI could change EV charging
- Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google
- The future of AI gadgets is just phones
- AI is confusing — here’s your cheat sheet
- The AI upgrade cycle is here
- Hello, you’re here because you said AI image editing was just like Photoshop
AI in the news
- OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December
- Will California flip the AI industry on its head?
- Google Maps is getting ‘supercharged’ with generative AI
- Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet
- Anthropic has a fast new AI model — and a clever new way to interact with chatbots
- Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet
- I literally spoke with Nvidia’s AI-powered video game NPCs
- Google’s new generative AI video model is now available
AI, reviewed
- Meta has a major opportunity to win the AI hardware race
- Hands-on with Orion, Meta’s first pair of AR glasses
- Samsung’s new image-generating AI tool is a little too good
- Google Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: AI all over the place
- Apple Intelligence is here, but it still has a lot to learn
- Humane AI Pin review: not even close
- The AI photo editing era is here, and it’s every person for themselves
- Rabbit R1 review: nothing to see here
- Apple iPhone 16 Pro review: small camera update, big difference
- Friend’s AI chatbots have issues — and they want your help
- AI is booming on the App Store, and developers are taking advantage of it
