# forck.live — 17–23 January 2022

> 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 2022-W03, 17–23 January 2022, 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/2022-W03
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replit — Going Where the Next Billion Creators Are

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2022-01-21T08:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/mobile-v2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18186-going-where-the-next-billion-creators-are
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit launched a completely rearchitected mobile IDE for web, aimed at making software creation tools easier to use on mobile devices. The company says the new version will not look much different but will likely feel different, and it is focused on bringing the best of Replit to its mobile users.

### Hugging Face — Welcome Stable-baselines3 to the Hugging Face Hub 🤗

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-01-21
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/sb3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2229-welcome-stable-baselines3-to-the-hugging-face-hub
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announced the integration of Stable-Baselines3 into the Hugging Face Hub, enabling users to host and load Deep Reinforcement Learning models.

### Replit — Use Replit At Work With Teams Pro

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2022-01-19
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/teamspro
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18090-use-replit-at-work-with-teams-pro
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit released Teams Pro, a collaborative coding environment for companies, after a six-month private beta. The product enables pair programming, use of 80,000 Linux packages and languages from the Nix ecosystem, private code sharing, and asynchronous team conversations.

### LG AI Research — EXAONE Alliance Expands Worldwide

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2022-01-19
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=172
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11083-exaone-alliance-expands-worldwide
- Subject: EXAONE

LG AI Research signed MOUs with Elsevier and Shutterstock to apply its EXAONE super-giant AI. The Elsevier partnership focuses on Deep Document Understanding for novel material discovery, while the Shutterstock partnership targets multimodal AI that connects images and language.

### LG AI Research — EXAONE Alliance Expands Worldwide

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2022-01-19
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=172
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4967-exaone-alliance-expands-worldwide
- Subject: EXAONE

LG AI Research has signed memoranda of understanding with Elsevier and Shutterstock, forming global partnerships to apply its super-giant AI, EXAONE, to document understanding for novel material discovery and to multimodal image-language AI research, respectively.