2023 was a breakthrough year for AI, comprising the beginning of a new phase in the evolution toward Artificial General Intelligence and ultimately superintelligence. In 2024 we can expect to see progress along the lines we saw in 2024 but more so, with generative AI extending more emphatically beyond images and voice to video and music, and integration of LLMs with knowledge graphs and symbolic reasoning systems accelerating penetration of AI into the enterprise across all verticals. We will also see a huge increase in R&D involving alternative and additional approaches to AGI beyond the world of contemporary deep neural nets including logical inference, evolutionary learning, artificial life, realistic neurological modeling and self-organizing dynamical systems. As all this progress infuses AI into every application area and demonstrates increasing progress toward human-level AGI systems with fundamental creativity and ability for complex multi-step reasoning, concerns regarding the ethics of the next stages of AI development will grow. Open source will continue to play a critical role in driving AI forward in a broadly beneficial way, together with blockchain based tools that enable the real-time operation of AI systems to proceed in an egalitarian way without control or ownership by any centralized company, government or elite. The AGI race is on, and if things go well every one of us will be a winner.