# forck.live — 7–13 November 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-W45, 7–13 November 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-W45
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replit — See Your Currently Running Repls

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2022-11-11T12:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/repl-status
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18104-see-your-currently-running-repls
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit launched a Repl Status Manager that shows users which repls are currently running, their status history, and allows stopping repls to prevent wake-ups from pingers. The feature is accessible via the Status tab on the My Repls page.

### LG AI Research — [CLEF 2022] Context Aware Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2022-11-10
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=272
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4921-clef-2022-context-aware-named-entity-recognition-and-relation-extraction
- Subject: EXAONE

LG AI Research participated in two tasks (1a and 1b) of the ChEMU 2022 challenge for extracting chemical reaction information from patents, achieving the highest performance among four teams. They used a domain-specific language model post-trained on chemical and biomedical texts, and developed separate NER and RE models operating in a pipeline.

### Hugging Face — Introducing our new pricing

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-11-08
- Category: pricing-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/pricing-update
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2136-introducing-our-new-pricing
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face updated its pricing page, sunsetting the Paid tier of the Inference API (now free) and introducing Inference Endpoints and hardware upgrades for Spaces, with consolidated billing.

### Hugging Face — Generating Human-level Text with Contrastive Search in Transformers 🤗

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-11-08
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/introducing-csearch
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2135-generating-human-level-text-with-contrastive-search-in-transformers
- Subject: Platform

Contrastive search, a state-of-the-art decoding method for neural text generation, and announces its availability in the Hugging Face Transformers library for both PyTorch and TensorFlow. It addresses repetition and semantic incoherence issues in existing decoding methods.

### Hugging Face — Training Stable Diffusion with Dreambooth using Diffusers

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-11-07
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/dreambooth
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2137-training-stable-diffusion-with-dreambooth-using-diffusers
- Subject: Platform

Experimental findings and recommendations for fine-tuning Stable Diffusion with Dreambooth using the Diffusers library, including optimal hyperparameters and the importance of prior preservation for faces.
