# forck.live — 26 April – 2 May 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-W17, 26 April – 2 May 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-W17
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### LG AI Research — LG AI Research Attends AIIS Spring Retreat

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2021-04-30
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=108
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11098-lg-ai-research-attends-aiis-spring-retreat
- Subject: EXAONE

LG AI Research attended the AIIS Spring Retreat at Seoul National University on April 30, where researchers from LG AI Research, NAVER, and Hyperconnect presented recent work alongside about 55 students. LG AI Research presented papers on continual learning, dialogue systems, neural network explanation, and visual explanation methods.

### LG AI Research — LG AI Research Attends AIIS Spring Retreat

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2021-04-30
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=108
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4995-lg-ai-research-attends-aiis-spring-retreat
- Subject: EXAONE

LG AI Research attended the AIIS Spring Retreat, presented papers, and plans to continue industry-academic cooperation.

### Replit — Why We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-04-29
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/dns
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18049-why-we-built-our-own-dns-infrastructure
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit built its own authoritative DNS name server to route HTTP requests for *.repl.co domains to the correct cluster's proxy load balancer, enabling cluster-aware hosting without extra network hops. The DNS server, implemented in Go, also handles DNS-01 challenges for TLS certificates and uses low TTLs (60s) with tombstones to transparently migrate repls between clusters.

### Replit — Why We Switched From Webpack To Vite

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-04-28
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/vite
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18234-why-we-switched-from-webpack-to-vite
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit switched its React template from Create React App and Webpack to Vite, a JavaScript build tool that provides faster development through pre-bundling dependencies with esbuild and serving source code over native ES Modules. The change resulted in significantly faster hot module replacement and build times, enabling quicker prototyping and development on the platform.