# forck.live — 15–21 August 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-W33, 15–21 August 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-W33
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Hugging Face — Deploying 🤗 ViT on Vertex AI

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-08-19
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/deploy-vertex-ai
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2161-deploying-vit-on-vertex-ai
- Subject: Platform

To deploy a Vision Transformer (ViT) model on Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, including steps for uploading the model to the model registry, creating an endpoint, and making prediction requests.

### Hugging Face — Deep Dive: Vision Transformers On Hugging Face Optimum Graphcore

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-08-18
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/vision-transformers
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2162-deep-dive-vision-transformers-on-hugging-face-optimum-graphcore
- Subject: Platform

To fine-tune pre-trained Vision Transformer (ViT) models using the Hugging Face Optimum library on Graphcore IPUs, using a chest X-ray dataset as an example.

### Hugging Face — A Gentle Introduction to 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for transformers at scale using transformers, accelerate and bitsandbytes

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-08-17
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-bitsandbytes-integration
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2163-a-gentle-introduction-to-8-bit-matrix-multiplication-for-transformers-at-scale
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face integrates LLM.int8() 8-bit matrix multiplication into its transformers library to reduce memory footprint of large language models without degrading performance.

### Replit — Ethical hacking on Replit

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2022-08-15
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/ethical-hacking-on-replit
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18157-ethical-hacking-on-replit
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit published a policy post distinguishing ethical hacking from abuse, listing prohibited activities such as nuke/raid bots, token grabbers, mass DM bots, phishing, DDoS attacks, and exploits, while allowing scripted interactions with third-party services, general-purpose security tools, and private repls for authorized penetration testing.