# forck.live — 26 June – 2 July 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-W26, 26 June – 2 July 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-W26 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Hugging Face — Leveraging Hugging Face for complex generative AI use cases - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-07-01 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/writer-case-study - Record: https://forck.live/items/2032-leveraging-hugging-face-for-complex-generative-ai-use-cases - Subject: Platform This is a case study interview where Hugging Face's Jeff Boudier speaks with Writer's CTO Waseem Alshikh about their progression from using Hugging Face, to becoming a customer, and then contributing open source models. ### Replit — Empowering Educators with MagicSchool and Replit Deployments - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-06-30 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/replit-deployments-magic-school - Record: https://forck.live/items/18070-empowering-educators-with-magicschool-and-replit-deployments - Subject: Replit Agent Replit's case study documents how MagicSchool, a productivity app for educators, was built using Replit's collaborative development environment and Deployments feature. MagicSchool saves educators up to 10 hours per week and onboarded over 1,500 teachers within three weeks of its public launch on May 22. ### OpenAI — Insights from global conversations - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-06-29T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/insights-from-global-conversations - Record: https://forck.live/items/854-insights-from-global-conversations - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API The post shares insights gathered from conversations across 22 countries and explains how these insights will inform future actions. ### Hugging Face — Accelerating Vision-Language Models: BridgeTower on Habana Gaudi2 - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-06-29 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/bridgetower - Record: https://forck.live/items/2033-accelerating-vision-language-models-bridgetower-on-habana-gaudi2 - Subject: Platform This post benchmarks fine-tuning BridgeTower on Habana Gaudi2, achieving speedups over Nvidia A100 and H100 using Optimum Habana v1.7 and hardware-accelerated data loading techniques. ### OpenAI — Introducing OpenAI London - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-06-28T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-london - Record: https://forck.live/items/855-introducing-openai-london - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces its first international expansion with a new office in London. ### Hugging Face — Ethics and Society Newsletter #4: Bias in Text-to-Image Models - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-06-26 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ethics-soc-4 - Record: https://forck.live/items/2034-ethics-and-society-newsletter-4-bias-in-text-to-image-models - Subject: Platform A discussion of bias in text-to-image models, including sources of bias and methods for detection.