# forck.live — 19–25 September 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-W38, 19–25 September 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-W38 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replit — Worldwide Repls, part 2: Load balancing for fun (although not quite profit) - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2022-09-23T18:00:00+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/geo-part-2-loadbalancing - Record: https://forck.live/items/18102-worldwide-repls-part-2-load-balancing-for-fun-although-not-quite-profit - Subject: Replit Agent Replit developed a custom load balancer to address issues with Google Cloud Load Balancer, which caused uneven load distribution and suboptimal container placement across its fleet. The new system uses subsetting to select a subset of healthy machines and then applies a policy (random or round-robin) to route requests, improving container count variance between median and 99th percentile. The load balancer was built after a proof-of-concept and simulator validated the approach, and it handles connections with load differences up to 6 or 7 orders of magnitude. ### Hugging Face — Ethics and Society Newsletter #1 - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2022-09-22 - Category: safety-policy-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ethics-soc-1 - Record: https://forck.live/items/2152-ethics-and-society-newsletter-1 - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces the launch of its Ethics and Society newsletter, detailing its ethical principles and new tools for responsible AI development, including flagging repositories for ethical issues. ### OpenAI — Introducing Whisper - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2022-09-21T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: open-weight-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/whisper - Record: https://forck.live/items/892-introducing-whisper - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces and open-sources Whisper, a neural network for English speech recognition that approaches human-level robustness and accuracy. ### Replit — Productizing Large Language Models - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2022-09-21 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/llms - Record: https://forck.live/items/18103-productizing-large-language-models - Subject: Replit Agent Replit describes its experience deploying transformer-based language models ranging from ~100 million to over 100 billion parameters, including its GhostWriter code autocomplete product. The post covers techniques for reducing nonsense output, maintaining quality via benchmarks and A/B testing, and improving inference speed through FasterTransformer, knowledge distillation, and quantization. ### Replit — Replit 100 Days of Code - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2022-09-20 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/100-days-of-code - Record: https://forck.live/items/17975-replit-100-days-of-code - Subject: Replit Agent Replit launched a 100-day coding course that requires 15 minutes per day and builds 100 projects. The course includes video and written tutorials, live support via the Replit 101 workshop, and is designed for all skill levels.