# forck.live — 8–14 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-W19, 8–14 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-W19
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Hugging Face — Assisted Generation: a new direction toward low-latency text generation

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-05-11
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/assisted-generation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2064-assisted-generation-a-new-direction-toward-low-latency-text-generation
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face introduces assisted generation, a new decoding method that reduces latency for autoregressive text generation by up to 10x on commodity hardware.

### OpenAI — Language models can explain neurons in language models

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2023-05-09T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/language-models-can-explain-neurons-in-language-models
- Record: https://forck.live/items/862-language-models-can-explain-neurons-in-language-models
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI uses GPT-4 to automatically write and score explanations for neurons in GPT-2, and releases a dataset of these explanations and scores for every neuron in GPT-2.

### Hugging Face — Creating a Coding Assistant with StarCoder

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-05-09
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/starchat-alpha
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2065-creating-a-coding-assistant-with-starcoder
- Subject: Platform

To fine-tune the open-source StarCoder model to create a conversational coding assistant called StarChat, highlighting the use of chat markup language and prompt engineering.

### Hugging Face — A Dive into Text-to-Video Models

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-05-08
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/text-to-video
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2066-a-dive-into-text-to-video-models
- Subject: Platform

Text-to-video models, discussing their challenges, evolution, and current state.