# forck.live — 15–21 March 2021 > 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 2021-W11, 15–21 March 2021, 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/2021-W11 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replit — Introducing the Python package cache - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2021-03-19T19:45:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/python-package-cache - Record: https://forck.live/items/18209-introducing-the-python-package-cache - Subject: Replit Agent Replit enabled a Python package cache that pre-populates popular pip packages in each repl's cache, eliminating the download step for most Python repls. The cache uses an Overlay Filesystem to share a read-only snapshot across repls while keeping each repl's cache independent. Average package installation time across Always On repls has decreased by roughly 40%. ### Hugging Face — My Journey to a serverless transformers pipeline on Google Cloud - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2021-03-18 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-deploy-a-pipeline-to-google-clouds - Record: https://forck.live/items/2264-my-journey-to-a-serverless-transformers-pipeline-on-google-cloud - Subject: Platform A community member describes the process of deploying a Hugging Face Transformers sentiment-analysis pipeline to Google Cloud Run, using a DistilBERT model and a Docker container. The post covers various deployment options and the final implementation. ### LG AI Research — LG AI Spring Party March 2021, A Look into the Latest AI Trends and Best Practices - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-03-17 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=73 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11099-lg-ai-spring-party-march-2021-a-look-into-the-latest-ai-trends-and-best - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held the LG AI Spring Party on March 4th, 2021, featuring an AI Talk Concert with presentations on large language models including GPT-3, time series forecasting, AI ethics and regulations, and multi-modal representation learning, followed by an awards ceremony for an AI Hackathon competition that attracted 1,352 participating teams. ### LG AI Research — LG AI Spring Party March 2021, A Look into the Latest AI Trends and Best Practices - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-03-17 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=73 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4998-lg-ai-spring-party-march-2021-a-look-into-the-latest-ai-trends-and-best - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held an internal event called 'LG AI Spring Party' featuring a Best Practice Conference, an AI Talk Concert with talks on large language models, time series forecasting, AI ethics, and multi-modal representation learning, and an AI Hackathon awards ceremony. The event was broadcast live due to COVID-19.