# forck.live — 16–22 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 2023-W03, 16–22 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/2023-W03 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Hugging Face — 3D Asset Generation: AI for Game Development #3 - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-01-20 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ml-for-games-3 - Record: https://forck.live/items/2109-3d-asset-generation-ai-for-game-development-3 - Subject: Platform This is a tutorial blog post in a series about using AI for game development. It discusses the current state of text-to-3D generation, explains why it is not yet practically useful for game development, and speculates on future directions. It does not announce any new product, model, or capability. ### Hugging Face — Universal Image Segmentation with Mask2Former and OneFormer - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-01-19 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/mask2former - Record: https://forck.live/items/2110-universal-image-segmentation-with-mask2former-and-oneformer - Subject: Platform Mask2Former and OneFormer, two state-of-the-art neural networks for image segmentation, now available in the 🤗 transformers open-source library. The models adopt a unified architecture for instance, semantic, and panoptic segmentation. ### Replit — Announcing more power and changes to pricing - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-01-17T17:15:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/new-year-new-replit - Record: https://forck.live/items/18194-announcing-more-power-and-changes-to-pricing - Subject: Replit Agent Launching more power and upcoming changes to your Hacker benefits and individual powerups Replit has changed a lot since we launched in 2016 — evolving from a simple IDE to a place where you can learn, build, host, and share your software creations with millions around the world. Today, I'm excited to share we're launching new Boost levels that we hope will make your creation experience on Replit a lot more powerful. Replit has always been about software development - raising the ceiling of what you can build and share online instantly. We've added a lot of power and value to Replit over the years and are launching more to help you unlock more value and power on Replit. We believe it's important to adjust our pricing to reflect these changes and ensure that we can continue to provide a first-class experience for those building on our platform. This is not a decision we made lightly. If you pay us for services on Replit, you'll receive an email detailing changes to prices and benefits specific to you. These updates will roll out over the next few weeks but we wanted to let you know as soon as possible. … ### Hugging Face — Welcome PaddlePaddle to the Hugging Face Hub - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-01-17 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/paddlepaddle - Record: https://forck.live/items/2111-welcome-paddlepaddle-to-the-hugging-face-hub - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces an open source collaboration with PaddlePaddle, Baidu's deep learning platform, to integrate PaddlePaddle libraries with the Hugging Face Hub, starting with PaddleNLP. ### Hugging Face — Image Similarity with Hugging Face Datasets and Transformers - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-01-16 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/image-similarity - Record: https://forck.live/items/2112-image-similarity-with-hugging-face-datasets-and-transformers - Subject: Platform To build an image similarity system using Hugging Face Transformers and Datasets.