2024 in Review: AIM Media House

2024 wasn’t just another lap around the Sun for AI—it was the year—a pivotal one that set the stage for further advancements and bigger breakthroughs in 2025.

Let’s dive in.

Sriram Krishnan’s appointment as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House sparked debates about immigration and innovation, and Nobel laureates like John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper showcased AI’s transformative impact. The year has been nothing short of revolutionary. AlphaFold, the youngest innovation to win a Nobel, has reshaped protein research. At the same time, reasoning models like OpenAI’s o3 and Meta’s FAIR self-taught Evaluator, alongside Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, have taken AI closer to independent “thinking”.