To say that 2024 was THE year of AI is an understatement. 2024 was a year of explosive growth and excitement in the field of AI, revolutionizing marketing as never before.
At Women Love AI Marketing, we carefully curate the latest AI news, selecting the developments we believe are having the greatest impact on the marketing landscape (and on our daily jobs). While AI Marketing isn't yet a formal discipline, it's rapidly evolving alongside an unprecedented wave of innovation in AI.
We've compiled a list of the most 284 impactful AI news from 2024.
And since we figured this massive list could be a little bit ugh to digest 😑 ... to help you focus on the most critical trends, we've also identified 10 key takeaways from 2024 that will shape your marketing strategy in 2025. You can check this out here.
We would LOVE to know which of these developments had the biggest impact on your marketing efforts this past year. Share in the comments.
✨ Happy new year!! ✨ !!
AI Marketing News in December 2024
Google Search will reportedly have a dedicated ‘AI Mode’ soon
Perplexity acquires Carbon to connect AI search to your work files
Runway Launches Talent Network: AI-Focused Platform for Creative Hiring in Media Industry
Google DeepMind launches FACTS Grounding benchmark for AI fact-checking
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Search for all users as well real-time information in Advanced Voice Mode
Google Launches Agentspace: AI Agents for Enterprise Expertise and Data Access
Perplexity Adds Custom Web Sources to Spaces, Enhancing User-Specific Search Options
AI Safety Breakthrough: Researchers Discover Universal Method to Bypass Model Safeguards
Time launches AI chatbot to answer questions about Person of the Year
Meta FAIR Releases New Research on AI Agents, Safety, and Machine Learning Architectures
Meta releases open-source watermarking tool for AI-generated videos
Samsung and Google Unveil Mixed Reality Headset Similar to Apple's Vision Pro
Midjourney to Launch 'Patchwork': Collaborative AI Worldbuilding Tool
Google launches Gemini 2: Try Gemini's New Deep Research Assistant and Experimental Chat Model
OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Integration Across Apple Devices, Including Siri and Visual Search
Yelp introduces AI-powered features for improved local business discovery
Character.AI sued over chatbots allegedly encouraging self-harm to teens
Reddit introduces AI-powered 'Reddit Answers' search feature
OpenAI launches Sora: AI video generation model for text, image, and video inputs
Hubspot acquires Frame AI to enhance conversational intelligence
Amazon and Anthropic join forces to build advanced AI supercomputer
Sundar Pichaï: Google Search to “change profoundly” in 2025, takes jab at microsoft
Perplexity adds 15 major media partners to revenue-sharing program
Spotify and NotebookLM partner for personalized AI Wrapped podcasts
Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI
The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you
Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast powered by Google’s NotebookLM
ChatGPT's search results for news are 'unpredictable' and frequently inaccurate
Hume launches Voice Control for custom AI voice creation to be read with this other post =>Introducing Voice Control: AI Tool for Precise Voice Customization Without Cloning Risks
The Browser Company is building Dia, an AI-powered web browser with an intelligent cursor
AI Marketing News in November 2024
These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own
Musk seeks injunction to block OpenAI's for-profit transition
DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games
Amazon Develops Video AI Model to Reduce Dependence on External AI Partners
Alibaba releases open-source AI model to rival OpenAI's reasoning capabilities
AI-Powered Sound Machine Fugatto Transforms Music and Audio with Prompts
Anthropic raises another $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its ‘primary’ training partner
Amazon to Invest Additional $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic
Threads Tests AI Summaries for Trending Topics, Following X's Lead
Apple reportedly prepping powerful new AI version of Siri for 2026
Otter.ai’s Sam Liang: We can unlock valuable data from meetings and conversations
Google Cloud launches AI Agent Space with limited offerings compared to rivals
Meta fined nearly €800mn for breaking EU law over classified ads practices
EU AI Act: Draft guidance for general purpose AIs shows first steps for Big AI to comply
OpenAI and Common Sense Media offer free AI course for educators
H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications
Google Docs Content Now Easily Integrated into Claude AI Chats and Projects
OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research
Google is further cracking down on sites publishing ‘parasite SEO’ content
Trump Team Mulls Creating First-Ever White House Crypto Role
Mistral Launches Free AI Tools for Search, Vision, Ideation, and Coding
Meta AI Expands to Ray-Ban Smart Glasses in More European Countries
Coca-Cola's AI-Generated Christmas Ad Sparks Controversy and this one too Coca-Cola causes controversy with AI-made ad
Valuations at Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI set to soar in new deals
Meta fined nearly €800mn for breaking EU law over classified ads practices
CFPB looks to place Google under federal supervision, setting up clash
EU AI Act: Draft guidance for general purpose AIs shows first steps for Big AI to comply
Use Gemini in Google Docs to create unique images for your documents
TikTok partners with Getty Images for AI-generated ads and avatars
Anthropic Adds AI-Powered Prompt Improver to Console for Enhanced Prompts
OpenAI to Launch 'Operator' AI Agent Tool in January for Task Automation
DeepL introduces real-time voice and video translation with DeepL Voice
Perplexity to Introduce Ads on Its AI-Powered Search Platform
AI Tools Now Allow Editing of Adobe Stock Photos Before Licensing
Apple AI Notification Summaries: Rarely Useful, Often Hilarious
Google's AI 'learning companion' aims to stimulate curiosity
Lex Fridman's 5-Hour Talk with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI, Claude, and Safety
The push for Elon Musk to lead American AI policy is already starting
The Beatles' final song, restored using AI, is up for a Grammy
Amazon Considers Multibillion-Dollar Investment in AI Startup Anthropic
Trump's Victory: Implications for AI Regulation in the US and this one AI News: What Does Trump Mean For AI?
Instagram to Use AI to Detect Underage Users and Enforce Privacy Settings
Perplexity Launches Election Information Hub for Informed Voting
AI Marketing News in October 2024
Agents are the future AI companies promise — and desperately need
More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
App Store will soon show summary of app reviews made by users
Meta Developing AI-Powered Search Engine to Reduce Reliance on Google and Bing
AI Search Overviews Expand Globally, Reaching Over 1 Billion Monthly Users
Meta releases open-source version of Google's podcast generator
Coinbase Launches "Based Agent" for Quick AI Creation in Crypto
Perplexity pushes back on lawsuit, criticizes media as 'adversarial'
Perplexity releases native Mac app to compete with other AI search tools
Goodreads co-founder launches Smashing, an AI-powered app for online readers
AI chatbot firm Character.ai enhances safety after teen user's suicide
New AI music tools now available in MusicFX DJ, Music AI Sandbox and YouTube Shorts
OpenAI Extends Advanced Voice Access to Plus Users in EU and Selected European Countries
Unlocking Autonomous Agent Capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Apple's AI Technology Reportedly Two Years Behind Competitors
Midjourney to release AI image editing tools for public use on the web
Noom launches AI body scan feature to track muscle mass during weight loss
NotebookLM adds team collaboration pilot and customizable Audio Overviews
The New York Times warns AI search engine Perplexity to stop using its content
Taboola Launches Abby: AI Assistant for Advertisers to Manage Campaigns
Adobe Proposes Method to Protect Artists from AI-Generated Imitations
Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield win Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational AI work
OpenAI Partners with Hearst to Bring Lifestyle and Local News Content to Its Products
Adobe to launch web app for certifying artwork authenticity in 2025
TikTok's owner is scraping the web 25 times faster than OpenAI
Introducing New Facebook Features: Local Tab, Messenger Communities, and AI Integrations
Video editing app Captions launches AI-powered social media manager for websites
Google Expands AI's Role in Search with Ads and Redesigned Overviews
OpenAI confirms AI agents are coming next year — what it means for you
Judge blocks California's new AI law in case over Kamala Harris deepfake
Famous AI Artist Demands Copyright Protections for Midjourney-Generated Work
OpenAI's DevDay introduces Realtime API and new features for AI app developers
OpenAI Just Announced 4 New AI Features and They're Available Now
AI Marketing News in September 2024
Airtable just launched an AI platform that could change how you work
NotebookLM adds audio and YouTube support, plus easier sharing of Audio Overviews
OpenAI's chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati's exit
James Cameron, Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Joins Stability AI Board of Directors
World's First Museum of AI Arts 'Dataland' to Open in Los Angeles
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $120M fund for global AI education
Apple Intelligence is now live in public beta. Here’s what it offers and how to enable it.
T-Mobile partners with OpenAI for customer service revamp powered by AI
Empowering YouTube creators with generative AI to be read with this one Made on YouTube 2024: Announcements for YouTube creators and viewers
Salesforce's AgentForce: The AI assistants that want to run your entire business
Facebook and Instagram are making AI labels less prominent on edited content
OpenAI Introduces it's Latest State of the Art Model, OpenAI o1
Google's AI notebook can generate a podcast about your notes
Google's NotebookLM can discuss your notes with you now. How to access it (and why you should)
The NFL and AWS expand their partnership to tackle more AI use cases
Adobe previews its upcoming text-to-video generative AI tools
Bumble to leverage AI to help users with profile creation and conversations
ESPN’s AI-generated sports recaps are already missing the point
Amazon is allowing Audible narrators to clone themselves with AI
AI Marketing News in August 2024
200 million people use ChatGPT every week - up from 100 million last fall, says OpenAI
Wyze’s AI can now search your camera footage so you don’t have to
OpenAI and Anthropic will share their models with the US government
With 10x growth since 2023, Llama is the leading engine of AI innovation
OpenAI supports California AI bill requiring 'watermarking' of synthetic content
Perplexity AI plans to start running search ads in fourth quarter
Google's AI Overviews get three useful updates. Here's what's new
Unleashing Creativity: Rendora's Text-to-3D Video Platform Shines at SIGGRAPH 2024
ChatGPT now lets free users generate up to two images per day made by DALL-E 3
ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing
Good news — your Google Meet call will soon be able to take notes for you
OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode
Automattic launches AI writing tool that aims to make WordPress blogs more readable and succinct
Fei-Fei Li, "The Godmother of AI," shares her concerns around Senate Bill 1047
Amazon Music's new AI-powered tool helps you find and browse podcasts
YouTuber files class action suit over OpenAI's scrape of creators' transcripts
Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI
AI Marketing News in July 2024
Google's 'About This Image' Feature Will Tell You How Reliable a Photo Is
OpenAI pledges to give U.S. AI Safety Institute early access to its next model
Here’s Where AI Will Play a Role At the Paris Olympics - Could It Change the Future of Sport?
Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots - except the ones that pay
Amazon’s AI shopping assistant rolls out to all users in the US
AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend
Perplexity Pro Search: Upgraded for more advanced problem-solving
AI Marketing News in June 2024
Character.AI now allows users to talk with AI avatars over calls
YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels
TIME and ElevenLabs partner to accelerate the creation of audio accessible content
Captions releases AI edit feature that automatically adds effects to your video
The owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brand
Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says
Apple Won’t Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns
Leonardo AI Launches a New Model—Can It Dethrone Ideogram as Best Image Generator?
Apple Intelligence Will Label AI-Generated Images in Metadata
Releasing New AI Research Models to Accelerate Innovation at Scale
Google DeepMind Shifts From Research Lab to AI Product Factory
Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math
Google DeepMind Unveils News Research - Generating audio for video
Sam Altman says OpenAI could become a for-profit meaning it could eventually IPO
Spotify announces an in-house creative agency, tests generative AI voiceover ads
Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo
Luma AI debuts 'Dream Machine' for realistic video generation, heating up AI media race
Suno releases new "Audio Input" feature to add your own sounds to AI-generated music
A complete breakdown of all of Apple's AI announcements at WWDC
Adobe’s new terms of service say it won’t train AI on customers’ work
OpenAI Sora’s biggest rival is here: Chinese AI model Kling creates videos with more accuracy
AI Startup Perplexity Says News Summary Tool Has ‘Rough Edges’
Adobe terms clarified: Will never own your work, or use it to train AI
AI apocalypse? ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity all went down at the same time
Meta is using your posts to train AI. It's not easy to opt out.
Will Siri Become More Like ChatGPT? All Eyes on Apple's WWDC
AI Marketing News in May 2024
Perplexity AI's new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
Google's AI Feature Suggested Using Glue to Keep Cheese on a Pizza
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
Apple teaming with OpenAI on chatbot to be announced at WWDC
LOVO AI lawsuit: Actors Hit AI Voice Cloning Company With Class Action
Scarlett Johansson says that OpenAI approached her to use her voice
Sony Music Group warns more than 700 companies against using its content to train AI
ChatGPT lets users upload from Google Drive and OneDrive directly
Google and OpenAI show we're entering a new phase of the AI era
Everyone in Hollywood Is Using AI, but "They Are Scared to Admit It"
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs
Google I/O 2024: Sundar Pichai on Gemini, AI progress and more
OpenAI strikes licensing deal with the magazine giant behind People
OpenAI Creating "Media Manager" so that content owners can manage how their works are used in AI
40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners
OpenAI appears to be planning on getting into the search engine game
Microsoft’s OpenAI investment was triggered by Google fears, emails reveal
You can now generate MidJourney images directly on their website
AI Marketing News in April 2024
Google to pay up to $6 mln to News Corp for new AI content, The Information reports
We’re bringing the Financial Times’ world-class journalism to ChatGPT
Meet Your New Chief AI Officer: Introducing The Next Wave from the HubSpot Media Network
New bill would force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art
OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4
Spotify Premium Users Can Now Turn Any Idea Into a Personalized Playlist With AI Playlist in Beta
Our Approach to Labeling AI-Generated Content and Manipulated Media
YouTube CEO: Using Platform’s Videos to Train AI Violates Terms of Service
AI Marketing News in March 2024
Amazon spends $2.7B on startup Anthropic in largest venture investment
“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time
Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams
Tennessee becomes the first state to protect artists against AI
Hey YouTube creators, it’s time to start labeling AI-generated content in your videos
Google researchers unveil 'VLOGGER', an AI that can bring still photos to life
‘We Created a Processor for the Generative AI Era,’ NVIDIA CEO Says
Apple is reportedly exploring a partnership with Google for Gemini-powered feature on iPhones
World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June
Apple hinted at big AI plans. Here's what AppleGPT might entail
Salesforce aims to blaze new generative AI trail for developers with Einstein 1 Studio
Perplexity Poised To Become Latest AI Startup To Hit Unicorn Status
Competition in AI video generation heats up as DeepMind alums unveil Haiper
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of nonprofit AI mission
AI Marketing News in February 2024
Google brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud
Tim Cook says Apple will ‘break new ground’ in GenAI this year
Google hopeful of fix for Gemini’s historical-image diversity issue within weeks
Google Gemini's AI Image Generator Accused of Being 'Anti-White'
The Disney Accelerator Program Invests Heavily in AI Companies
Match Group inks deal with OpenAI, says press release written by ChatGPT
AI Isn't Driving Tech Layoffs — and It's Time to Change the Narrative
Introducing OpusClip 3.0. The smartest AI video clipping tool just got smarter.
Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million dollar licensing deal to train AI models
Judge Dismisses Nearly All Of Sarah Silverman And Other Authors’ Lawsuits Against OpenAI
Perplexity partners with Vercel, opening AI search to developer apps
Disney Tests AI Tool Matching Commercials to Appropriate Content
Letter from the YouTube CEO: 4 Big bets for 2024 (Spoiler: AI is high on the list)
Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI's custom GPTs
Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app
AI Marketing News in January 2024
How Guns N' Roses Used AI to Create Wild New Music Video 'The General'
The power of Google AI comes to the new Samsung Galaxy S24 series
Shopify’s ‘Magic’ AI image editor can make any product pics look professional
Arc Search: a new iPhone app combining browser, search, and AI
OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year
Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for
2023 Supreme Court Year-End Report (Including How AI Should Be Handled)