2024 will be known as the year that artificial intelligence redefined the technology landscape.

2025 may be known as the year that the United States and tech leader allies of President-elect Trump

try to win an AI race with China.

Jeffrey Brown takes a look at the ups and downs of AI advancement.

AI has quickly become part of everyday life, with AI powered features integrated into everything

from search engines and cell phones to hospital equipment and politics.

But how fast, with what impact, and what are the limits on further growth?

For some end of the year thoughts, I'm joined by Reid

Elbergotti, technology editor of Semaphore. So thanks so much for joining us. And, you know,

knowing that this is a fast-moving field, give us two or three of the big developments of the last

year and why they stood out for you. Yeah, you know, one I think is self-driving cars.

After stalling, really, with its progress over the last couple of years, we saw big leaps this

year. And Waymo, which is Google's autonomous driving robotaxy that's available in San Francisco

and Arizona, is now going to expand to 10 cities in the upcoming year.

We also saw Tesla's full self-driving make big strides.

So that's really interesting.

I think another one with AI models were these text-to-video models, which were sort of teased

by OpenAI's SORA earlier this year.

That's now available to the public.

And these allow you to prompt a model with text, and it comes up with this video that's

really almost indistinguishable from reality.

Google released its similar model, competing model, later this year.

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