# forck.live — 20–26 March 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-W12, 20–26 March 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-W12 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### OpenAI — March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-03-24T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/march-20-chatgpt-outage - Record: https://forck.live/items/866-march-20-chatgpt-outage-here-s-what-happened - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI published an update describing the findings, actions taken, and technical details regarding the March 20 ChatGPT outage. ### Upstage — Experience the amazing performance of OCR technology at the Upstage OCR API Launch Event - Company: Upstage (upstage.ai) - Announced: 2023-03-24 - Category: api-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.upstage.ai/blog/en/ocr-api-free-trial-event - Record: https://forck.live/items/18490-experience-the-amazing-performance-of-ocr-technology-at-the-upstage-ocr-api - Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini Upstage announced the launch of its OCR API service, a cloud-based API for text extraction from documents. The company is offering a free trial to corporate customers who pre-register by March 31, 2023. The API supports handwriting, Chinese characters, checkboxes, stamps, and signatures, and claims real-time inference in two seconds or less. ### Hugging Face — Train your ControlNet with diffusers - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-03-24 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/train-your-controlnet - Record: https://forck.live/items/2083-train-your-controlnet-with-diffusers - Subject: Platform Training a ControlNet for Stable Diffusion using the diffusers library, using the example of a facial landmarks conditioning model trained on the FaceSynthetics dataset. ### OpenAI — ChatGPT plugins - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-03-23T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-plugins - Record: https://forck.live/items/867-chatgpt-plugins - Title in English (translated by forck.live from en): ChatGPT Plugins Support Announced - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI has implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT, which are tools designed for language models to access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services. ### Replicate — How to use Alpaca-LoRA to fine-tune a model like ChatGPT - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2023-03-23 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/fine-tune-alpaca-with-lora - Record: https://forck.live/items/2571-how-to-use-alpaca-lora-to-fine-tune-a-model-like-chatgpt - Subject: Platform To fine-tune the LLaMA model using the Alpaca-LoRA technique, including prerequisites and instructions for setting up the environment, obtaining weights, fine-tuning, and running the model. ### Hugging Face — Jupyter X Hugging Face - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-03-23 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/notebooks-hub - Record: https://forck.live/items/2084-jupyter-x-hugging-face - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces improved support for Jupyter notebooks on the Hub, including rendering notebooks in a human-readable format and one-click opening in Google Colab. ### Replit — Announcing Outbound Data Transfer Limits - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-03-22T14:45:00+00:00 - Category: pricing-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/announcing-outbound-data-transfer-limits - Record: https://forck.live/items/18118-announcing-outbound-data-transfer-limits - Subject: Replit Agent Replit announced that from April 7th it will enforce monthly outbound data transfer limits based on plan tier: free users get 10 GiB, Hacker users 50 GiB, and Pro users 100 GiB. Additional data can be purchased at $0.10 per GiB, and exceeding the limit will result in throttling and eventual disablement of data transmission. ### Runway — Scaling our in-house research infrastructure with AWS - Company: Runway (runway.com) - Announced: 2023-03-22T10:10:10.110000+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://runway.com/news/scaling-our-in-house-research-infrastructure-with-aws - Record: https://forck.live/items/7938-scaling-our-in-house-research-infrastructure-with-aws - Subject: Gen / Aleph Runway announced a multi-year strategic research partnership with AWS as its preferred cloud provider, bringing all model development and training in-house. The partnership will scale its high performance computing cluster and accelerate training. Gen-2 was trained on AWS in collaboration with NVIDIA. ### Replit — An update to cover pages - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/new-cover-page - Record: https://forck.live/items/18191-an-update-to-cover-pages - Subject: Replit Agent Replit rolled out a visual update to cover pages that gives Repl content more screen space and moves comments, tips, and creator info into a sidebar. The company reports that viewers of the new design were 125% more likely to leave a tip.