A month-by-month snapshot of how generative AI evolved over the last 12 months — from major model releases to regulatory waves and on-device breakthroughs.
May 2024
Claude 3, GPT-4-Turbo & the Rise of Open-Weight Challengers
A deep dive into the release of Claude 3 and GPT-4-Turbo, as well as Mistral and LLaMA2’s growing open-source momentum. Proprietary and open-weight ecosystems both gained traction, with developers finally able to benchmark trade-offs clearly.
June 2024
AI-Powered Code Reviews: The Year Copilots Got Serious
GenAI tools like CodeRabbit, CodeWhisperer, and Qodana gained traction for in-depth code analysis and automated refactoring, making AI copilots a legitimate part of engineering workflows.
July 2024
Multimodal Models Break Ground: Vision Meets Language at Scale
GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5, and Claude 3 Opus redefined interaction by supporting text, image, and audio inputs natively — unlocking new use cases in accessibility, education, and content creation.
August 2024
The GenAI Stack is Real: LangChain, Dust, Cursor & More
Developers went from prompting to production with toolchains like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Cursor AI, enabling full-stack GenAI applications with retrieval, orchestration, and agent memory.
September 2024
Enterprise Guardrails: GenAI Security & Governance Goes Mainstream
Organisations invested in policy frameworks, logging, and access controls for GenAI systems, with tools like Azure AI and Google AIAA supporting SOC2/ISO/PCI-level deployment standards.
October 2024
Creative Destruction: How GenAI Disrupted SEO, Design & Ads
From AI-generated images to mass-personalised ad copy and automated SEO content pipelines, GenAI transformed how marketing and creative teams drive performance and content velocity.
November 2024
Synthetic Data Gets Real: The Next Fuel for Machine Learning
Synthetic data tools like Gretel and Mostly AI became mainstream, helping organisations generate privacy-compliant training data for regulated industries and augment limited real-world datasets.
December 2024
The GenAI Holiday Test: Chatbots, Gifting Tools & Commerce UX
Retailers used GenAI to power gift finders, personalised chatbot assistants, and dynamic campaign generation — proving that generative tools could scale during peak e-commerce traffic.
January 2025
Prompt Engineering Becomes a Career Path (and a Skill Gap)
Companies formalised prompt engineering roles as key to LLM performance and safe deployment. The skill matured with documentation patterns, tooling, and salary bands for specialists.
February 2025
The AI Agent Wars Begin: OpenAI GPTs vs. Devin vs. AutoGPTs
Multi-step agents took centre stage, with real use cases emerging in QA automation, self-healing software, and internal tools orchestration — even as questions about reliability and control remained.
March 2025
Regulators Catch Up: The AI Act, FTC Guidance & Model Risk Reviews
Europe passed the AI Act, while the US and other countries issued compliance frameworks. Enterprises began deploying model risk registers, governance boards, and red teaming pipelines.
April 2025
LLMs Go Local: On-Device AI Hits Phones, Laptops & IoT
Apple, Google, and Meta shipped efficient LLMs to consumer devices, enabling private, low-latency, offline GenAI use cases — a major step toward real-time, personal AI agents.
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