# forck.live — 9–15 May 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-W19, 9–15 May 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-W19
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Hugging Face — Student Ambassador Program’s call for applications is open!

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-05-13
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ambassadors
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2202-student-ambassador-program-s-call-for-applications-is-open
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces the opening of applications for its Student Ambassador Program, aimed at teaching open-source machine learning to students worldwide by 2023.

### Hugging Face — Director of Machine Learning Insights [Part 2: SaaS Edition]

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-05-13
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ml-director-insights-2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2201-director-of-machine-learning-insights-part-2-saas-edition
- Subject: Platform

An interview series article featuring directors of machine learning at SaaS companies, discussing ML's impact, challenges, and future.

### Hugging Face — Accelerated Inference with Optimum and Transformers Pipelines

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-05-10
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/optimum-inference
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2203-accelerated-inference-with-optimum-and-transformers-pipelines
- Subject: Platform

Optimum 1.2 adds inference support with ONNX Runtime and transformers pipelines, allowing users to use the same API as Hugging Face Transformers with accelerated runtimes.

### Hugging Face — We Raised $100 Million for Open & Collaborative Machine Learning 🚀

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-05-09
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/series-c
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2204-we-raised-100-million-for-open-collaborative-machine-learning
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Lux Capital.