# forck.live — 24–30 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-W21, 24–30 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-W21
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Hugging Face — Using & Mixing Hugging Face Models with Gradio 2.0

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2021-05-25
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2258-using-mixing-hugging-face-models-with-gradio-2-0
- Subject: Platform

Gradio 2.0 now allows loading and using almost any Hugging Face model with a GUI in one line of code, and supports mixing multiple models in parallel or series.

### Replit — How we went from supporting 50 languages to all of them

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-05-24T18:30:56+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/nix
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18110-how-we-went-from-supporting-50-languages-to-all-of-them
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit announced the integration of Nix into its infrastructure, giving users access to over 30,000 OS packages instantly. The move replaces a static, pre-baked OS image that was becoming unsustainable to maintain. Users can now specify dependencies in a replit.nix file and have environments built composably, with packages already available in every repl via a shared 1 terabyte Nix store.