Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.

Early testers are playing with Google's new Veo 2 and finding it bests OpenAI's Sora when it comes to accuracy.

The rapid commoditization of AI models continues, even with a groundbreaking new approach known as inference-time compute.

The year 2024 saw major AI innovations, including OpenAI's Sora Turbo for video creation, Google's upgraded Veo 2 and Imagen 3, and Microsoft's autonomous agents in Copilot. xAI's Grok-2 models enhanced coding and reasoning,

Google announces Veo 2, a generative AI video competitor to Open AI's Sora. Meanwhile, account creation for Sora is back after being halted temporarily.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai sees a slowdown while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions acceleration to generative artificial intelligence next year, according to the New York Times.

OpenAI has launched the test phase for its new reasoning AI models, o3 and o3 mini, aiming to advance problem-solving and stay competitive with tech giants like Google.

The corporate transition will allow OpenAI to raise more money and finally give its board the freedom to consider what its investors want.

See all the announcements from OpenAI’s 12-day extravaganza, including new integrations for developers and an opportunity to stress-test the next big model.

What is the future of video creation with AI tools like Veo2 and Sora generating high-quality, realistic videos? More importantly, which is better for you? We try to find some answers to some of these questions.

There has been a spike in OpenAI outages across the country since 1:25 p.m. EST, according to Downdetector.