It’s almost hard to remember what it was like before the whole world seemed to be powered by AI. Whether you like it or not, the tech industry is be

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2024-12-12 00:30:04

It’s almost hard to remember what it was like before the whole world seemed to be powered by AI. Whether you like it or not, the tech industry is betting AI can improve everything from your iPhone to your relationship with animals. And the hype doesn’t stop there.

As 2025 inches closer, there is no shortage of AI-powered product launches. OpenAI just announced Sora, its long-awaited photorealistic video generator, as part of “Shipmas,” a 12-day series of product releases that rhymes with Christmas. Reddit launched an AI search tool that helps you tap into its hive mind without using Google. That shouldn’t bother Google, which has a new quantum computing chip called Willow that promises to supercharge what AI can do.

Then there’s Microsoft. After investing $13 billion in OpenAI and becoming an early mover in the generative AI race a couple years ago, Microsoft has been building out its stable of AI offerings in recent months. In March, the company acquired Inflection AI and appointed its co-founder, Mustafa Suleyman, as CEO of Microsoft AI, overseeing its consumer AI products including Copilot, Bing, and Edge.

Microsoft’s big early-December product launch doesn’t quite match Sora in terms of scale and buzz, but the new AI tool does do something entirely original.

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