# forck.live — 30 August – 5 September 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-W35, 30 August – 5 September 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-W35 - 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 — Into the Sharing Meeting of LG AI Research's AI Advanced Problem-Solving Course & LG AI Hackathon Awards! - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-09-03 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=139 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11091-into-the-sharing-meeting-of-lg-ai-research-s-ai-advanced-problem-solving - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held a best practice sharing meeting for its AI Advanced Problem-Solving Course and the 4th LG AI Hackathon Awards Ceremony on August 31. The 12-week course paired 12 LG employees with LG AI Research mentors to solve business problems; the winning demand forecasting model achieved 85% accuracy, a 20–25 percentage point improvement over existing models. The hackathon, organized with Dacon, attracted 1,101 teams competing to develop AI models that remove glare from photos for under-display camera technology, with winners receiving KRW 10 million and job application benefits. ### LG AI Research — Into the Sharing Meeting of LG AI Research's AI Advanced Problem-Solving Course & LG AI Hackathon Awards! - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-09-03 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=139 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4983-into-the-sharing-meeting-of-lg-ai-research-s-ai-advanced-problem-solving - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held a best practice sharing meeting for its AI Advanced Problem-Solving Course and the LG AI Hackathon Awards Ceremony, highlighting internal training and a hackathon competition on glare removal for under-display cameras. ### Replit — Making Replit Faster for Everyone - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2021-09-01T23:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/faster-repls - Record: https://forck.live/items/18159-making-replit-faster-for-everyone - Subject: Replit Agent Replit implemented infrastructure changes to improve repl performance. It separated repls accessed via hosting from those in the workspace, resulting in an average 10-20% speed improvement for actively edited repls across all subscription types. Subscribers to Teams and Hacker plans received upgraded VMs with Cascade Lake processors, providing an immediate 20% speed improvement. ### Runway — Creative AI Conversations 2021 - 2022 - Company: Runway (runway.com) - Announced: 2021-09-01T16:22:35.195000+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://runway.com/research/ai-conversations - Record: https://forck.live/items/7947-creative-ai-conversations-2021-2022 - Subject: Gen / Aleph Runway published a series of interviews with researchers on creative AI, including Jia-Bin Huang, Soumyadip Sengupta, Rebecca Fiebrink, David Ha, and Devi Parikh.