# forck.live — 5–11 December 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-W49, 5–11 December 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-W49 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Runway — Gen-1: The next step forward for generative AI - Company: Runway (runway.com) - Announced: 2022-12-11T10:10:10.110000+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://runway.com/research/gen-1 - Record: https://forck.live/items/7940-gen-1-the-next-step-forward-for-generative-ai - Subject: Gen / Aleph Runway introduced Gen-1, a generative video model that can synthesize new videos by applying the composition and style of an image or text prompt to a source video. It offers multiple modes including stylization, storyboard, mask, render, and customization. The model is based on user studies and results are preferred over existing methods. ### LG AI Research — The 2nd LG AI Expert Course to Foster AI Talents Completes with Success - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2022-12-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=284 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11057-the-2nd-lg-ai-expert-course-to-foster-ai-talents-completes-with-success - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held a completion ceremony for the 2022 2nd LG AI Expert Course, a 12-week training program for employees of LG Group affiliates. Thirteen trainees from six affiliates completed the program, which included one-to-one mentoring with AI specialists. Three projects were awarded Best Practice, including a raw material price prediction model and a product defect prediction model. ### LG AI Research — The 2nd LG AI Expert Course to Foster AI Talents Completes with Success - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2022-12-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=284 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4916-the-2nd-lg-ai-expert-course-to-foster-ai-talents-completes-with-success - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held a completion ceremony for the 2022 2nd LG AI Expert Course, a 12-week AI training program for LG Group affiliates, where 13 trainees from six affiliates completed projects and presented their work. ### Hugging Face — From GPT2 to Stable Diffusion: Hugging Face arrives to the Elixir community - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2022-12-09 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/elixir-bumblebee - Record: https://forck.live/items/2123-from-gpt2-to-stable-diffusion-hugging-face-arrives-to-the-elixir-community - Subject: Platform Hugging Face Transformers are now available in Elixir through the Bumblebee library, enabling developers to use models like GPT2 and Stable Diffusion within Elixir applications without third-party dependencies. ### Hugging Face — Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2022-12-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf - Record: https://forck.live/items/2122-illustrating-reinforcement-learning-from-human-feedback-rlhf - Subject: Platform The process of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in three steps: pretraining a language model, training a reward model with human feedback, and fine-tuning the LM with reinforcement learning. ### OpenAI — Discovering the minutiae of backend systems - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2022-12-08T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/discovering-the-minutiae-of-backend-systems - Record: https://forck.live/items/887-discovering-the-minutiae-of-backend-systems - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Christian Gibson, an engineer on OpenAI's Supercomputing team, but provides no announcement or substantive detail about any product, model, or capability. ### Runway — Runway raises $50M Series C - Company: Runway (runway.com) - Announced: 2022-12-05T10:10:10.110000+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://runway.com/news/runway-raises-50-series-c - Record: https://forck.live/items/7941-runway-raises-50m-series-c - Subject: Gen / Aleph Runway announced it closed a $50 million Series C funding round led by Felicis, with participation from existing investors Amplify Partners, Lux Capital, Coatue, and Compound, as well as new investors including Madrona and several angel investors. The company plans to use the funding to build next-generation creative tools and grow its team. ### LG AI Research — [ECCV 2022] Review of ECCV 2022 and Computer Vision Research Trends - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2022-12-05 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=282 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4917-eccv-2022-review-of-eccv-2022-and-computer-vision-research-trends - Subject: EXAONE This blog post reviews the ECCV 2022 conference, highlights research trends in computer vision (especially multimodal AI and video), and introduces two papers from LG AI Research's Vision Lab presented at the conference.