# forck.live — 22–28 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-W12, 22–28 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-W12
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replit — Welcome to the Wonderful World of Clusters

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-03-26T17:30:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-clusters
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18236-welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-clusters
- Subject: Replit Agent

Having a solid foundation is critical for us to be able to fulfill our mission of making programming more accessible, more creative, and more fun.

### OpenAI — GPT-3 powers the next generation of apps

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2021-03-25T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-3-apps
- Record: https://forck.live/items/935-gpt-3-powers-the-next-generation-of-apps
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI states that over 300 applications use GPT-3 via its API for features like search, conversation, and text completion.

### Hugging Face — The Partnership: Amazon SageMaker and Hugging Face

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2021-03-23
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/the-partnership-amazon-sagemaker-and-hugging-face
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2263-the-partnership-amazon-sagemaker-and-hugging-face
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces a strategic partnership with Amazon, making AWS its preferred cloud provider, and introduces new Hugging Face Deep Learning Containers (DLCs) integrated with Amazon SageMaker to simplify training and deployment of Transformer models.
