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Is it really just two years since theChatGPT eraexploded onto the world stage?

We’re now almost numb to the launch of new models and new apps happening almost every other day.

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AI is a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.

Which makes it almost impossible to pick a best-of-the-year product.

A lot of competition in 2024

This year has seen so many unexpected heroes.

Gemini 2

The first indication was the super low-key launch of a small skunkworks project calledNotebookLMback in December of last year.

The flurry of Google product launches this December, based around the new Gemini 2.0 model are truly mind-blowing.

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