# forck.live — 20–26 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-W51, 20–26 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-W51 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replit — Implementing RUI, Replit's Design System - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2021-12-23 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/rui-eng - Record: https://forck.live/items/18064-implementing-rui-replit-s-design-system - Subject: Replit Agent At Replit, we have a small engineering and design team supporting millions of users. Our secret is investing in good tools that make us more productive. ### LG AI Research — LG AI Research Culture Playbook, “For a Better Organizational Culture” - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-12-23 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=166 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4970-lg-ai-research-culture-playbook-for-a-better-organizational-culture - Subject: EXAONE Its Culture Playbook, which outlines the organizational culture called 'Culture 3.0' and describes various initiatives such as meet-ups, tech seminars, living labs, networking events, and amenities to support researchers. ### Hugging Face — Active Learning with AutoNLP and Prodigy - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2021-12-23 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/autonlp-prodigy - Record: https://forck.live/items/2233-active-learning-with-autonlp-and-prodigy - Subject: Platform To build an active learning pipeline using Hugging Face's AutoNLP and Explosion's Prodigy annotation tool, including steps to train a multi-class classification model and label data for named entity recognition. ### Hugging Face — Gradio is joining Hugging Face! - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2021-12-21 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio-joins-hf - Record: https://forck.live/items/2234-gradio-is-joining-hugging-face - Subject: Platform Hugging Face acquires Gradio, a machine learning startup that provides an open-source library for building and sharing machine learning model demos, to further democratize machine learning accessibility. ### LG AI Research — Present and Future of LG AI Research through LG AI Talk Concert - The Best of 2021 - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-12-20 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=164 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11085-present-and-future-of-lg-ai-research-through-lg-ai-talk-concert-the-best-of-2021 - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research unveiled EXAONE, a super-giant AI model that processes both language and visual data and is bilingual in Korean and English. The model has been trained at scales of 1.3 billion, 13 billion, 39 billion, and 175 billion parameters, with a 300 billion parameter model in training. LG plans to build an ecosystem around EXAONE through APIs, infrastructure, and strategic partnerships. ### LG AI Research — Present and Future of LG AI Research through LG AI Talk Concert - The Best of 2021 - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-12-20 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=164 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4971-present-and-future-of-lg-ai-research-through-lg-ai-talk-concert-the-best-of-2021 - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research unveiled EXAONE, a super-giant AI model that is multi-modal (language and visual), bilingual (Korean and English), with parameter sizes up to 175 billion and currently learning 300 billion parameters.