# forck.live — 7–13 December 2020

> AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts.

forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may
corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its
own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a
company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately
as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs.

This file is one issue of the weekly archive: every confirmed
first-party announcement of ISO week 2020-W50, 7–13 December 2020, newest
first. The window never moves, so this URL always names the same seven days —
but a post published inside them and detected later is added when it arrives,
so a closed week can still gain entries.

Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields
in this order before any others:

    Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record

`Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record`
is this site's page for it. Both are safe to cite.

`Coverage` is a number of outlets, or `not counted` — which means this record
reached no count of its own, never that nobody wrote about it.

`Category` is this tracker's own analysis, and is authoritative wherever it is
stated. `not stated` means either that nothing has analysed the post yet or
that the analysis placed it outside this taxonomy; neither is a verdict about
the announcement.

`Announcement` is whether the post is news of something the company did, rather
than a how-to, a customer story, a changelog listing or a staffing note.

`Group` is which of this record's groups the entry falls in, carried on the
entry itself so it holds where the groups are headings and where they are not.
One of: `models`, `covered`, `announcements`, `routine`.

Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry.

- This week's page: https://forck.live/week/2020-W50
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Runway — Building impossible things

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2020-12-10T17:36:46.024000+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://runway.com/news/building-impossible-things
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7949-building-impossible-things
- Subject: Gen / Aleph

Runway's platform has been used to train over 50,000 AI models and upload 24 million assets, and it is used by companies including IBM, Google, and New Balance, and by educational institutions such as MIT and NYU.

### LG AI Research — LG launches artificial intelligence think tank 'LG AI Research

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2020-12-07
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=97
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11103-lg-launches-artificial-intelligence-think-tank-lg-ai-research
- Subject: EXAONE

LG Group announced the establishment of LG AI Research, an AI think tank, on December 7. The organization will study AI source technologies such as voice and image recognition, language processing, and data intelligence, and will collaborate with global research institutes. LG also appointed Honglak Lee, a University of Michigan professor and former Google Brain researcher, as Chief Scientist of AI.

### LG AI Research — LG launches artificial intelligence think tank 'LG AI Research

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2020-12-07
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=97
- Record: https://forck.live/items/5006-lg-launches-artificial-intelligence-think-tank-lg-ai-research
- Subject: EXAONE

LG establishes a new AI research organization called LG AI Research, with an investment of about 200 billion won over three years, hiring Honglak Lee as Chief Scientist, and plans to expand to 100 key researchers and foster 1,000 AI experts by 2023.