# forck.live — 5–11 June 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-W23, 5–11 June 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-W23
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replit — Keeping Your API Keys Safe

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-06-09T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/keeping-your-api-keys-safe
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18181-keeping-your-api-keys-safe
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit describes how it protects users' API keys by scanning published Repls for exposed keys from OpenAI, GitHub, npm, PyPI, Discord, and Sendgrid. When an exposed key is found, Replit unpublishes the Repl and revokes the key using a method supported by the third-party service. The post also explains how users should respond to a notification of a revoked key.

### Replit — Revolutionizing Language Learning with Replit Deployments

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-06-07
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/camp-lingo
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18078-revolutionizing-language-learning-with-replit-deployments
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit published a case study about Camp Lingo, an immersive language learning product built using Replit Deployments. The product was created by designer Hando and features AI-generated short stories, interactive lessons, and gamification. Hando plans to add custom translation models for low-resource languages and explore monetization through partnerships.

### Hugging Face — DuckDB: analyze 50,000+ datasets stored on the Hugging Face Hub

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-06-07
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/hub-duckdb
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2046-duckdb-analyze-50-000-datasets-stored-on-the-hugging-face-hub
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face added SQL query support via DuckDB to analyze datasets on the Hub.

### Replit — Replit AI Manifesto

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-06-06
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/replit-ai-manifesto
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18080-replit-ai-manifesto
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit announced a vision to build an Artificial Developer Intelligence (ADI) that will create agents capable of developing complex software architectures. The company plans to leverage its platform features, including Cycles and Bounties, to support an ecosystem where AI orchestrates software tools and rewards creators. Replit also introduced Michele Catasta as VP of AI, joining from Google.

### Hugging Face — Welcome fastText to the Hugging Face Hub

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-06-06
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/fasttext
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2047-welcome-fasttext-to-the-hugging-face-hub
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces that it is now hosting official mirrors of fastText word vectors for 157 languages and the latest language identification model, making them easily downloadable via the Hugging Face Hub.

### Hugging Face — The Falcon has landed in the Hugging Face ecosystem

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-06-05
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/falcon
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2048-the-falcon-has-landed-in-the-hugging-face-ecosystem
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces the integration of the Falcon family of language models, including Falcon-40B and Falcon-7B, released under Apache 2.0, with details on their architecture, training data, and tools for inference and fine-tuning.
