# forck.live — 17–23 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-W16, 17–23 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-W16
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replicate — Language model roundup, April 2023

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2023-04-21
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/language-model-roundup
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2568-language-model-roundup-april-2023
- Subject: Platform

A blog post from Replicate summarizing recent open-source language models including StableLM, Vicuna, and GPT4All, as well as tools and autonomous agent projects.

### Hugging Face — How to host a Unity game in a Space

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-04-21
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/unity-in-spaces
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2073-how-to-host-a-unity-game-in-a-space
- Subject: Platform

To host a Unity game in a Hugging Face Space.

### Replit — How to train your own Large Language Models

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-04-19
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/llm-training
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17986-how-to-train-your-own-large-language-models
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit describes how it trains large language models for code generation, using Databricks for data pipelines, Hugging Face for datasets and tools, and MosaicML for training infrastructure. The company trains custom models to improve support for web-specific languages like JSX and TSX, reduce dependency on external AI providers, and lower costs for global developers. Replit plans to open source some of its models.

### Replicate — AutoCog — Generate Cog configuration with GPT-4

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2023-04-19
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/autocog
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2569-autocog-generate-cog-configuration-with-gpt-4
- Subject: Platform

Replicate announces AutoCog, a tool that uses GPT-4 to automatically generate Cog configuration (cog.yaml and predict.py) from a machine learning repository by ordering files, generating code, running predictions, and iteratively fixing errors.

### Hugging Face — Accelerating Hugging Face Transformers with AWS Inferentia2

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-04-17
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/accelerate-transformers-with-inferentia2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2074-accelerating-hugging-face-transformers-with-aws-inferentia2
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces a partnership with AWS to optimize Hugging Face Transformers for the new AWS Inferentia2 inference accelerator, which delivers significant improvements in throughput, latency, and performance per watt compared to previous generations and GPUs.