# forck.live — 24–30 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-W17, 24–30 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-W17
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replit — Replit Bounties: Ship Code in Your Sleep

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-04-30T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/bounties-ship-in-your-sleep
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18097-replit-bounties-ship-code-in-your-sleep
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit Bounties is a marketplace where clients can post problem statements and receive applications from developers. A case study describes a developer who used the service to build a social polling web-app prototype for $600, with the entire process taking one week.

### Hugging Face — Training a language model with 🤗 Transformers using TensorFlow and TPUs

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-04-27
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/tf_tpu
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2069-training-a-language-model-with-transformers-using-tensorflow-and-tpus
- Subject: Platform

Training a masked language model (RoBERTa) from scratch using TensorFlow and TPUs, covering tokenizer training, data preparation, and model training.

### Harvey — Sequoia and OpenAI Back Harvey to Redefine Professional Services, Starting with Legal

- Company: Harvey (harvey.ai)
- Announced: 2023-04-26T21:38:00+00:00
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/sequoia-and-openai-back-harvey-to-redefine-professional-services-starting-with-le
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17738-sequoia-and-openai-back-harvey-to-redefine-professional-services-starting-with
- Subject: Harvey

Harvey announced a $21 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia, with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund, Conviction, SV Angel, and Elad Gil. The company aims to build AI systems for professional services, starting with legal, that are scalable, transparent, and secure.

### Hugging Face — Databricks ❤️ Hugging Face: up to 40% faster training and tuning of Large Language Models

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-04-26
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/databricks-case-study
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2071-databricks-hugging-face-up-to-40-faster-training-and-tuning-of-large-language
- Subject: Platform

Databricks contributed a new 'from_spark' function to Hugging Face's Datasets library, allowing users to directly convert Spark dataframes into Hugging Face datasets, reducing processing time by up to 40%.

### Hugging Face — Running IF with 🧨 diffusers on a Free Tier Google Colab

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-04-26
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/if
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2070-running-if-with-diffusers-on-a-free-tier-google-colab
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face shows how to run the IF text-to-image model on a free-tier Google Colab using 🧨 diffusers.

### Replit — A Recap of Replit Developer Day

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-04-25T12:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/replit-developer-day-recap
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18035-a-recap-of-replit-developer-day
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit announced several updates at Developer Day: redesigned production-grade deployments from the IDE, scalable Workspace boosts up to 16vCPU and 16GB RAM, disk space scaling to 256 GiB, a new Search and Replace tool, a redesigned Git tool, general availability of the Extensions platform with a permissioned security model, and the open-sourcing of its first complete code model, replit-code-v1-3b (2.7B parameters, trained on 525B tokens, 20 languages). Additionally, Replit is acquiring Atta for interactive charts in chat, and the Replit | Databricks integration is now generally available with native Lakebase support.

### Replit — Raising $97.4M at $1.16B Valuation to Expand our Cloud Services and Lead in AI Development

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-04-25T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/b-extension
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18125-raising-97-4m-at-1-16b-valuation-to-expand-our-cloud-services-and-lead-in-ai
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit announced the close of a $97.4 million financing round at a $1.16 billion post-money valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz's Growth Fund with participation from Khosla Ventures, Coatue, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Bloomberg Beta, Naval Ravikant, ARK Ventures, and Hamilton Helmer. The company will use the funds to innovate on its core development experience, expand cloud services, and drive AI innovation through Ghostwriter. Replit also announced the general availability of its Databricks integration with native Lakebase support, enabling teams to build full-stack apps combining live Databricks warehouse data with application data.

### OpenAI — New ways to manage your data in ChatGPT

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2023-04-25T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt
- Record: https://forck.live/items/863-new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history to control which conversations are used for model training.

### Hugging Face — Introducing HuggingFace blog for Chinese speakers: Fostering Collaboration with the Chinese AI community

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-04-24
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/chinese-language-blog
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2072-introducing-huggingface-blog-for-chinese-speakers-fostering-collaboration-with
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces a new blog for Chinese speakers, created by volunteers translating resources, to foster collaboration with the Chinese AI community. The post highlights achievements of the Chinese AI community and past collaborations, and looks forward to future events.