# forck.live — 13–19 February 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-W07, 13–19 February 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-W07 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### LG AI Research — LG AI Graduate School’s First Master’s Graduates! A Full-Fledged Start to Developing Talent for Practical AI - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-02-17 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=305 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11053-lg-ai-graduate-school-s-first-master-s-graduates-a-full-fledged-start-to - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held a graduation ceremony on February 7, awarding diplomas to the first five Master's graduates of its LG AI Graduate School, which trains LG Group employees in AI. The graduates completed a nine-month program combining theoretical education and research on real subsidiary problems, and defended theses before a committee that included an external professor. ### LG AI Research — LG AI Graduate School’s First Master’s Graduates! A Full-Fledged Start to Developing Talent for Practical AI - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-02-17 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=305 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4906-lg-ai-graduate-school-s-first-master-s-graduates-a-full-fledged-start-to - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research announced the first Master's graduates of its internal AI Graduate School, an educational program for LG Group employees, with a graduation ceremony held on February 7, 2022. ### Replit — Celebrating 20 Million Replit Developers - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-02-16T20:20:06+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/20-million-developers - Record: https://forck.live/items/18038-celebrating-20-million-replit-developers - Subject: Replit Agent Today, we celebrate 20 million developers on Replit . They've created 240M+ Repls, ranging from multiplayer games to production software with the power of real-time collaboration in the cloud and state-of-the-art AI tools. Developers build their businesses on Replit too, from indie hackers to YC-backed startups like Fig , AmpleMarket , and BerriAI to unicorns like Deel . The Replit Story In 2010, I was a young hacker in Amman, Jordan. I didn't have my own computer, but coding was my life. I’d go to internet cafés or borrow computers, and every time I switched machines, I needed to set up a new development environment from scratch. Worse, I couldn’t save my progress or collaborate with my friends. I’d email myself and others my code so we could work on different machines. Around that time, Google Docs came out, and it struck me that nothing like it existed for programming. I became obsessed with an idea: to create a world where I could open a browser tab, start coding, write a runnable program, collaborate with others, and access my work from any other device. … ### OpenAI — How should AI systems behave, and who should decide? - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-02-16T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/how-should-ai-systems-behave - Record: https://forck.live/items/876-how-should-ai-systems-behave-and-who-should-decide - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI clarifies how ChatGPT's behavior is shaped and outlines plans for improving behavior, allowing more user customization, and increasing public input into decision-making. ### Replit — Announcing Ghostwriter Chat: The first conversational AI programmer - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-02-15 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/gw-chat-launch - Record: https://forck.live/items/18071-announcing-ghostwriter-chat-the-first-conversational-ai-programmer - Subject: Replit Agent Today, we are announcing the beta release of Ghostwriter Chat. Now with chat, a proactive debugger, and awareness of your project’s context, Ghostwriter becomes the best AI pair programmer in the world. Building Ghostwriter Last fall, we introduced Ghostwriter, Replit’s coding AI, with Complete, Generate, Transform, and Explain Code - coding assistant tools that work with you as you code. Together they made coding faster by automating repetitive tasks and removing the drudgery of writing boilerplate code. That was just the first step towards our master plan to create a fully autonomous pair programmer – one that feels like working with another teammate. Ghostwriter Chat is the next phase of AI-assisted programming, helping you go from idea to product even faster. Recent studies show that conversational generated code suggestions are accepted +50% of the time, and +75% of people had a positive experience with conversational AI. Replit is the first to bring it directly to the IDE. Smart file context awareness … ### Hugging Face — Why we’re switching to Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, and maybe you should too - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-02-15 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/mantis-case-study - Record: https://forck.live/items/2097-why-we-re-switching-to-hugging-face-inference-endpoints-and-maybe-you-should-too - Subject: Platform The author's team switched to Hugging Face Inference Endpoints for deploying ML models, highlighting easier deployment, lower latency (twice as fast as their previous ECS setup), and a cost increase of 24-50% which they consider acceptable for the time saved. ### Hugging Face — Zero-shot image-to-text generation with BLIP-2 - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-02-15 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/blip-2 - Record: https://forck.live/items/2096-zero-shot-image-to-text-generation-with-blip-2 - Subject: Platform Hugging Face introduces BLIP-2, a visual-language model from Salesforce Research that uses a Q-Former to bridge frozen image encoders and LLMs, enabling zero-shot image captioning, visual question answering, and more. The model is now available in the Transformers library. ### LG AI Research — LG AI Research Holds the World’s First “Zero-Shot Image Captioning” Challenge - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-02-14 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=303 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11054-lg-ai-research-holds-the-world-s-first-zero-shot-image-captioning-challenge - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research is hosting the NICE challenge at CVPR 2023, the world's first zero-shot image captioning evaluation challenge, running from February to the end of April 2023. The challenge is co-hosted with Seoul National University and Shutterstock, and winners receive up to $5,000 and the opportunity to present at the CVPR 2023 workshop. ### LG AI Research — [NeurIPS 2022] Conference Review and Latest Research Trends - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-02-14 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=302 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4908-neurips-2022-conference-review-and-latest-research-trends - Subject: EXAONE This is a blog post reviewing research trends at NeurIPS 2022, focusing on score-based generative models and large language models. It does not announce any new AI product or model. ### LG AI Research — LG AI Research Holds the World’s First “Zero-Shot Image Captioning” Challenge - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-02-14 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=303 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4907-lg-ai-research-holds-the-world-s-first-zero-shot-image-captioning-challenge - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research announces the NICE challenge for zero-shot image captioning at CVPR 2023, co-hosted with Seoul National University and Shutterstock.