# forck.live — 26 December 2022 – 1 January 2023

> 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-W52, 26 December 2022 – 1 January 2023, 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-W52
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### OpenAI — Creating next-gen characters

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2023-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/inworld-ai-DO-NOT-PUBLISH
- Record: https://forck.live/items/883-creating-next-gen-characters
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI announces the use of GPT-3 to create next-generation AI-powered characters.

### Alibaba — OFASys: Enabling Multitask Learning with One Line of Code!

- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Announced: 2022-12-28T10:01:21+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/ofasys/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2323-ofasys-enabling-multitask-learning-with-one-line-of-code
- Subject: Qwen

Alibaba introduces OFASys, a framework designed to simplify multimodal multitask learning by allowing task setup with a single line of code. The post highlights challenges faced with prior models like OFA in handling multiple modalities and organizing multitask training.