Born in 2024
Generation Alpha
2013–2025 · Gen Alpha, the AI generation
If you were born in 2024, you are Generation Alpha — the generation born from 2013 onward. In 2025, that makes you 1 year old.
2024 was the year AI moved from extraordinary to expected. Multimodal AI — systems that could see, hear, speak, and reason simultaneously — became commercially available. The Paris Olympics returned the Games to their birthplace. Climate records continued to fall. And elections were held in more than 60 countries, involving more than half the world's population — a year of democratic decision-making unprecedented in scale. You entered the world in the middle of it.
Your Cohort Within Gen X
What's different about being born in 2024 specifically
All Gen Xers share a broad generational identity, but birth year matters. The events you experienced at particular ages shaped you differently from someone born five years earlier or later in the same generation.
- Born in the peak of the AI revolution — will never know a world where AI wasn't capable
- Paris Olympics their birth year — the Games returning to their origin
- Multimodal AI (seeing, hearing, speaking) launched their birth year
- Will begin school around 2029–2030 — deep into the AI-integrated educational era
- The most recent generation whose characteristics are entirely unknown — the future is genuinely open
Generation Profile
Generation X — The Full Picture
Children born in 2024 are infants in 2025 — at the stage of life where every day brings genuinely new capability: the first smile, the first word, the first step. They are too young for generational analysis to be meaningful in the specific sense, but the world they are being born into is worth describing.
They are being born into a world where AI is both the most transformative technology since the internet and the most contested. The questions being debated — about AI safety, about AI's effects on employment and creativity and education, about who controls AI and to what ends — are questions whose answers will be determined during their childhood. They will inherit those answers.
They are being born into a world where the oldest living generation (the last of the Silent Generation and the oldest Baby Boomers) and the youngest (themselves) coexist — a span of a century of lived human experience in simultaneous existence. The things those older generations built, and the problems they left unsolved, are the inheritance these youngest children are receiving.
Historical Context
Six things that happened the year you were born
The world you entered in 2024.
Multimodal AI Becomes Mainstream
In 2024, AI systems capable of processing and generating text, images, audio, and video simultaneously became widely available. GPT-4o, Claude 3, and Gemini Ultra could see images, analyse documents, hold conversations, and generate creative content in any medium. For children born in 2024, AI that can perceive and create across all media simultaneously is simply a feature of the world they're entering.
Paris Olympics — July to August
The Olympic Games returned to Paris for the first time since 1900 — featuring an opening ceremony on the Seine river, athletes competing in the shadow of iconic Parisian landmarks, and a genuine celebration of the city. For Gen Alpha born in 2024, the Olympics have always been a global event; Paris 2024 is their birth-year edition.
The Year of Global Elections
More than 60 countries held national elections in 2024, involving over 4 billion voters — roughly half the world's population casting ballots in a single year. The results reflected the global rise of political polarisation, the continued strength of populist movements, and the shifting geopolitical alignments of the post-pandemic era.
Climate Tipping Points Discussed
Scientific research in 2024 identified multiple potential climate tipping points — the Amazon's transition from carbon sink to carbon source, the accelerating melt of the Greenland ice sheet, the disruption of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — as closer than previously estimated. For Gen Alpha born in 2024, the urgency of these tipping points is the scientific backdrop of their entire lives.
CRISPR Treatments Approved
The first CRISPR-based gene therapy for sickle cell disease received regulatory approval in late 2023 and began reaching patients in 2024. Gene editing as a medical treatment — once science fiction — is a reality that children born in 2024 will grow up alongside. The ethical and medical implications of rewriting the human genome are being worked out during their childhood.
Global South Asserts Influence
The geopolitical weight of the Global South — particularly India, Brazil, and African nations — continued to grow in 2024. The assumption that the world was organised around a Western-centred order was being replaced by a more multipolar reality. For Gen Alpha, a genuinely multipolar world is simply the geopolitical baseline.
Culture in 2024
What people were watching, listening to, and talking about
The music, films, television, and sport of the year you were born.
Taylor Swift's Eras Tour continued to break records globally. Chappell Roan had one of the most celebrated breakthrough years of the decade. Charli XCX released Brat. Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" became a global summer phenomenon. The music landscape of 2024 was dominated by women making bold, genre-defying pop records.
Dune: Part Two was the year's most anticipated blockbuster and delivered. Inside Out 2 became the highest-grossing animated film ever made. Anora won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. The film industry continued to navigate the balance between streaming and theatrical release.
Shogun — the remake of the 1980 miniseries — swept the Emmys, winning 18 awards including Outstanding Drama Series. The Bear's third season divided audiences who had loved the second. Only Murders in the Building continued its improbable success.
Real Madrid won the UEFA Champions League for the second consecutive year. Caitlin Clark's WNBA debut generated record viewership for women's basketball. Carlos Alcaraz won Wimbledon and the French Open. The Paris Olympics produced multiple memorable moments including Noah Lyles's 100m win and Léon Marchand's four individual gold medals on home soil.
Your Generational Story
What it actually meant to be born in 2024
You are 1 year old in 2025. At 1, the world is still mostly the faces of the people who love you, the texture of things you can touch, the sounds that make you turn your head. Generational identity is the least relevant thing about you right now.
What is true is that you were born in the middle of something — a technological revolution, a climatic transformation, a geopolitical restructuring — that will define the world you grow up in. The AI that was extraordinary in 2022, expected in 2024, will be infrastructure by the time you start school. The climate effects that were alarming in 2020 will be established reality by the time you understand what climate means. The political world that is contested now will have resolved, in some direction, by the time you vote for the first time.
You will inherit all of it. The decisions being made right now — about AI governance, about climate policy, about political institutions — are decisions being made about your future by people who will largely not be alive to see the consequences. That's a significant responsibility those people carry, whether they know it or not.
At 1, none of that is your concern. What matters is the warmth of the person holding you, the sounds that make you laugh, and the extraordinary business of learning to be a person in the world. Everything else can wait.
Common Questions
Questions about being born in 2024
What generation is someone born in 2024?
Generation Alpha, born from approximately 2013 onward. Someone born in 2024 is 1 year old in 2025.
How old is someone born in 2024 in 2025?
1 year old in 2025.
Is 2024 Gen Z or Gen Alpha?
Generation Alpha. Gen Z ends in 2012. 2024 is twelve years into Generation Alpha.
What will shape children born in 2024?
Children born in 2024 will grow up in a world where AI is fully integrated into education, work, and daily life; where the effects of climate change are established and accelerating; and where the geopolitical order is multipolar and contested. They will begin school around 2030. Their defining characteristics are entirely unknown — they are the youngest generation and their story is just beginning.
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