# forck.live — 1–7 May 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-W18, 1–7 May 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-W18 - 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: AI-Powered Real Estate Recommendation Webapp - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-05-05T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/bounties-symplete-case-study - Record: https://forck.live/items/18096-replit-bounties-ai-powered-real-estate-recommendation-webapp - Subject: Replit Agent Replit published a case study showing how a Bounty Hunter used GPT-3 to build a prototype that analyzes residential purchase agreements and recommends the best one for a real estate agent. The prototype helped founder Christo Hefer validate his idea and inform the product roadmap for Symplete. ### Hugging Face — StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-05-04 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/starcoder - Record: https://forck.live/items/2067-starcoder-a-state-of-the-art-llm-for-code - Subject: Platform Hugging Face and ServiceNow's BigCode collaboration introduces StarCoder and StarCoderBase, 15B parameter open Code LLMs trained on permissively licensed GitHub data with an 8,000+ token context window. StarCoder is a Python-fine-tuned version that outperforms existing open models and matches closed models like code-cushman-001. Released under the BigCode OpenRAIL-M v1 license with safety measures. ### Replit — Announcing Replit Extensions - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-05-01T17:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/extensions - Record: https://forck.live/items/18085-announcing-replit-extensions - Subject: Replit Agent Replit announced the general availability of Replit Extensions, a system that allows developers to build and use extensions within the Replit environment. The company also noted plans to add a payment system for monetizing extensions in the future. ### Replit — Copyright Law in the Age of AI: The Role of Licensing in Replit's Development - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-05-01T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/copyright-law-in-the-age-of-ai - Record: https://forck.live/items/18143-copyright-law-in-the-age-of-ai-the-role-of-licensing-in-replit-s-development - Subject: Replit Agent Thousands of unique users code in Replit every day. Few of them probably give much thought to the copyright that attaches to their code. ### Hugging Face — How to Install and Use the Hugging Face Unity API - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-05-01 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/unity-api - Record: https://forck.live/items/2068-how-to-install-and-use-the-hugging-face-unity-api - Subject: Platform Hugging Face released the Unity API, an integration of the Hugging Face Inference API for Unity developers to use AI models from Hugging Face.