# forck.live — 14–20 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-W51, 14–20 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-W51 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Runway — Runway raises $8.5M Series A - Company: Runway (runway.com) - Announced: 2020-12-16T23:23:58.290000+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://runway.com/news/runway-raises-8-5m-series-a - Record: https://forck.live/items/7948-runway-raises-8-5m-series-a - Subject: Gen / Aleph Runway announced an $8.5M Series A funding round led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Lux Capital and Compound Ventures. ### LG AI Research — The Online Opening Ceremony of LG AI Research Part. 1 - LG's Future Led by AI - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2020-12-15 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=57 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11102-the-online-opening-ceremony-of-lg-ai-research-part-1-lg-s-future-led-by-ai - Title in English (translated by forck.live from en): The Online Opening Ceremony of LG AI Research Part. 1 - LG's Future Led by AI - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held an online opening ceremony and AI talk concert on December 7 to mark its launch as a group-wide AI research organization. The head of the organization said its task is to solve affiliates' challenges through AI research and seek new business opportunities, and it plans to attract global talent with an independent personnel system and exceptional treatment. ### LG AI Research — The Online Opening Ceremony of LG AI Research Part. 2 - AI Talk Concert - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2020-12-15 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=58 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11101-the-online-opening-ceremony-of-lg-ai-research-part-2-ai-talk-concert - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held an online opening ceremony featuring presentations on AI research directions by Chief AI Scientist Honglak Lee, lab leaders in data intelligence, language, and vision, and external speakers from DeepMind and KAIST on AI trends in game-playing and material development. The event outlined LG's research focus on representation learning, task dependency prediction, and applied AI technologies across forecasting, language processing, and computer vision, with plans to apply these advances to product development and business optimization. ### LG AI Research — The Online Opening Ceremony of LG AI Research Part. 1 - LG's Future Led by AI - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2020-12-15 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=57 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5005-the-online-opening-ceremony-of-lg-ai-research-part-1-lg-s-future-led-by-ai - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research announces its launch as a new AI organization within LG, with an online opening ceremony and AI talk concert held on December 7. ### LG AI Research — The Online Opening Ceremony of LG AI Research Part. 2 - AI Talk Concert - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2020-12-15 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=58 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5004-the-online-opening-ceremony-of-lg-ai-research-part-2-ai-talk-concert - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held an online AI Talk Concert with presentations on research directions, technology trends, and business plans, but no new product or model was announced. ### LG AI Research — The significance of LG's participation in A3MD Consortium and a study on AI driven Material Discovery - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2020-12-15 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=59 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5003-the-significance-of-lg-s-participation-in-a3md-consortium-and-a-study-on-ai - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research announces its participation as a founding member of the A3MD consortium for AI-accelerated material discovery, collaborating with universities and companies to develop eco-friendly catalysts and high-efficiency light-emitting semiconductors using AI.