# forck.live — 21–27 February 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-W08, 21–27 February 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-W08
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replit — All New Repls are Powered By Nix

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2022-02-23T17:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/powered-by-nix
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18202-all-new-repls-are-powered-by-nix
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit announced that all new repls are now powered by Nix, replacing the legacy Polygott system. This change enables support for more languages, easier package installation, and user-customizable configurations via the .replit file and templates. Old repls will eventually be migrated to Nix as well.

### LG AI Research — To Form a Super-Giant AI Ecosystem, Expert AI Alliance Begins

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2022-02-23
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=181
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11079-to-form-a-super-giant-ai-ecosystem-expert-ai-alliance-begins
- Subject: EXAONE

Expert AI Alliance, a super-giant AI alliance led by LG AI Research, was launched in a ceremonial event on February 22 with an ambitious vision together with a workshop.

### LG AI Research — To Form a Super-Giant AI Ecosystem, Expert AI Alliance Begins

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2022-02-23
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=181
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4963-to-form-a-super-giant-ai-ecosystem-expert-ai-alliance-begins
- Subject: EXAONE

LG AI Research launched the Expert AI Alliance on February 22, bringing together 13 founding partners including LG affiliates, Woori Bank, EBS, Korea University Medicine, Elsevier, Shutterstock, and Google to collaborate on developing Expert AI using the EXAONE model. LG AI Research plans to pre-release 39 APIs in eight domains and launch an EXAONE Playground platform.