# forck.live — 13–19 December 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-W50, 13–19 December 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-W50
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### OpenAI — WebGPT: Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2021-12-16T08:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/webgpt
- Record: https://forck.live/items/921-webgpt-improving-the-factual-accuracy-of-language-models-through-web-browsing
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI fine-tuned GPT-3 to improve factual accuracy by enabling it to browse the web.

### Runway — Runway raises $35M Series B

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2021-12-15T23:23:58.290000+00:00
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://runway.com/news/runway-raises-35-series-b
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7945-runway-raises-35m-series-b
- Subject: Gen / Aleph

Runway raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Coatue, with participation from existing investors Amplify Partners, Lux Ventures, and Compound.

### Replit — Repl Space and Templates

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-12-15T05:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/replspace-templates
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18063-repl-space-and-templates
- Subject: Replit Agent

When we want to support a new technology, we're faced with the question: "Do we (the Replit team) build this capability into the Replit directly, or can our users add it themselves?". Usually, we want the answer to be the latter.

### Hugging Face — Perceiver IO: a scalable, fully-attentional model that works on any modality

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2021-12-15
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/perceiver
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2235-perceiver-io-a-scalable-fully-attentional-model-that-works-on-any-modality
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces the addition of Perceiver IO to the Transformers library, a Transformer-based model that works on all kinds of modalities including text, images, audio, video, and point clouds.

### Replit — Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A Comparison of the Code Editors You Use in the Browser

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-12-14
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/code-editors
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17955-ace-codemirror-and-monaco-a-comparison-of-the-code-editors-you-use-in-the
- Subject: Replit Agent

I’ve been working on Replit for roughly six years now, and as the team has grown, I’ve focused on the IDE (what we call the workspace) portion of the product. Naturally, I was increasingly preoccupied with the code editor.