# forck.live — 27 March – 2 April 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-W13, 27 March – 2 April 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-W13 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Hugging Face — Ethics and Society Newsletter #3: Ethical Openness at Hugging Face - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-03-30 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ethics-soc-3 - Record: https://forck.live/items/2079-ethics-and-society-newsletter-3-ethical-openness-at-hugging-face - Subject: Platform Hugging Face's Ethics and Society newsletter discusses their approach to ethical openness in machine learning, including developing tools for ethical moderation, community safeguards, and promoting responsible AI practices through tags and documentation. ### LG AI Research — LG Tech Conference 2023: Where LG Technology Meets the Best R&D Talents - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-03-29 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=316 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11052-lg-tech-conference-2023-where-lg-technology-meets-the-best-r-d-talents - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held the LG Tech Conference 2023 on March 16 at LG Science Park in Seoul, featuring tech sessions on AI, metaverse, blockchain, software, smart factory, big data, and more. LG AI Research presented EXAONE, a multimodal AI with two-way image-to-text and text-to-image generation, and discussed AI applications in chemical research. ### LG AI Research — LG Tech Conference 2023: Where LG Technology Meets the Best R&D Talents - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-03-29 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=316 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4902-lg-tech-conference-2023-where-lg-technology-meets-the-best-r-d-talents - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research announced the LG Tech Conference 2023, an event showcasing LG's technology and R&D talents, featuring tech sessions on AI, metaverse, blockchain, and other fields. Presentations included EXAONE, a multimodal AI with image-to-text and text-to-image generation capabilities. ### Replit — Replit and Google Cloud Partner to Advance Generative AI for Software Development - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-03-28 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/google-partnership - Record: https://forck.live/items/17997-replit-and-google-cloud-partner-to-advance-generative-ai-for-software - Subject: Replit Agent Replit and Google Cloud announced a partnership under which Replit developers will gain access to Google Cloud infrastructure and foundation models via Ghostwriter, while Google Cloud and Workspace developers will get access to Replit's collaborative code editing platform. The collaboration aims to accelerate generative AI application development and support Google Cloud's goal of enabling companies to speed up their development process using AI. ### Hugging Face — Accelerating Stable Diffusion Inference on Intel CPUs - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-03-28 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/stable-diffusion-inference-intel - Record: https://forck.live/items/2081-accelerating-stable-diffusion-inference-on-intel-cpus - Subject: Platform Techniques to accelerate Stable Diffusion model inference on Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs using Optimum Intel, OpenVINO, and system-level optimizations, achieving up to nearly 10x speedup compared to previous-generation CPUs. ### Hugging Face — Fast Inference on Large Language Models: BLOOMZ on Habana Gaudi2 Accelerator - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-03-28 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/habana-gaudi-2-bloom - Record: https://forck.live/items/2080-fast-inference-on-large-language-models-bloomz-on-habana-gaudi2-accelerator - Subject: Platform To deploy large language models like BLOOMZ on Habana Gaudi2 accelerators using Optimum Habana, and presents benchmarks showing that Gaudi2 achieves lower inference latency than Nvidia A100 80GB GPUs for BLOOMZ models. ### Replit — Building Ghostwriter Chat - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-03-27T14:45:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/building-ghostwriter-chat - Record: https://forck.live/items/18076-building-ghostwriter-chat - Subject: Replit Agent Replit describes the development of Ghostwriter Chat, an LLM-powered chat application integrated into its IDE. The post covers prompt construction, handling token limits, and streaming responses to achieve sub-500ms latency. It also outlines plans for future improvements as LLM capabilities grow. ### Hugging Face — Federated Learning using Hugging Face and Flower - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-03-27 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/fl-with-flower - Record: https://forck.live/items/2082-federated-learning-using-hugging-face-and-flower - Subject: Platform This is a tutorial on using Hugging Face with Flower to perform federated learning, specifically fine-tuning a pre-trained distilBERT model for sequence classification on the IMDB dataset.