# Latent.Space 2024 Year in Review

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Podcast: [Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer)
Published: 2024-12-31T20:46:31+00:00
Episode link: https://www.latent.space/p/2024-review
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Applications for the 2025 AI Engineer Summit are up, and you can save the date for AIE Singapore in April and AIE World’s Fair 2025 in June . Happy new year, and thanks for 100 great episodes! Please let us know what you want to see/hear for the next 100! Full YouTube Episode with Slides/Charts Like and subscribe and hit that bell to get notifs! Timestamps * 00:00 Welcome to the 100th Episode! * 00:19 Reflecting on the Journey * 00:47 AI Engineering: The Rise and Impact * 03:15 Latent Space Live and AI Conferences * 09:44 The Competitive AI Landscape * 21:45 Synthetic Data and Future Trends * 35:53 Creative Writing with AI * 36:12 Legal and Ethical Issues in AI * 38:18 The Data War: GPU Poor vs. GPU Rich * 39:12 The Rise of GPU Ultra Rich * 40:47 Emerging Trends in AI Models * 45:31 The Multi-Modality War * 01:05:31 The Future of AI Benchmarks * 01:13:17 Pionote and Frontier Models * 01:13:47 Niche Models and Base Models * 01:14:30 State Space Models and RWKB * 01:15:48 Inference Race and Price Wars * 01:22:16 Major AI Themes of the Year * 01:22:48 AI Rewind: January to March * 01:26:42 AI Rewind: April to June * 01:33:12 AI Rewind: July to September * 01:34:59 AI Rewind: October to December * 01:39:53 Year-End Reflections and Predictions Transcript [00:00:00] Welcome to the 100th Episode! [00:00:00] Alessio: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space Podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co host Swyx for the 100th time today. [00:00:12] swyx: Yay, um, and we're so glad that, yeah, you know, everyone has, uh, followed us in this journey. How do you feel about it? 100 episodes. [00:00:19] Alessio: Yeah, I know. [00:00:19] Reflecting on the Journey [00:00:19] Alessio: Almost two years that we've been doing this. We've had four…

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