Wanism’s Newsletter
What happened in tech that actually mattered, and what did it mean?
What happened in tech that actually mattered, and what did it mean?

Cloudflare, a leading content delivery network (CDN) provider, released 2024 its annual global network traffic trend report, showing a 17.2% increase in overall traffic compared to the previous year. Google remains the highest traffic generator globally, while the United States remains the primary source region for bot traffic.

After observing major tech players' AI strategies throughout the year, Amazon's approach as the cloud service leader has been particularly intriguing. Amazon unveiled its foundation models, Amazon Nova, at AWS re:Invent 2024 held during Dec. 2-6, 2024.

Arcane Season 2, launched on Netflix on November 23, stands as a masterpiece in storytelling and visual artistry, even for those unfamiliar with League of Legends. Remarkably, the show cost $250 million for just 18 episodes over two seasons, taking nine years to develop.

As Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate increasingly powerful reasoning capabilities, enabling AI to decompose tasks independently has become the next crucial development phase. AI Agents represent the next frontier that all major tech companies pursue, exemplified by Anthropic's launch of Computer Use and Microsoft's announcement of customizable Copilot Studio.

In 2019, after a 27-year stint at Apple, Jony Ive and former colleague Marc Newson co-founded the design consultancy LoveFrom. Although LoveFrom initially maintained a partnership with Apple, this collaboration ended in June 2022.

In a significant power move, OpenAI unleashed its o1-preview model on September 12, 2024, touting it as an AI powerhouse capable of complex reasoning. The model is now available for a test drive in ChatGPT and via API.

In the AI race, a new contender is rising. On August 13, Elon Musk's xAI launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, reshaping the market landscape with these new AI model iterations.

Meta released the Llama 3.1 large language model (LLM) on July 23. This new model is undoubtedly a game-changer in open-source AI.

In a bullish move, Tesla shareholders gave a resounding thumbs up to Elon Musk's controversial 2018 compensation package, worth a whopping $46-56 billion, at the 2024 annual meeting.