# forck.live — 24–30 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-W30, 24–30 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-W30
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replicate — Run Llama 2 with an API

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2023-07-27
- Category: api-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/run-llama-2-with-an-api
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2561-run-llama-2-with-an-api
- Subject: Platform

Replicate announced that Llama 2 can be run via its API, with client support for JavaScript, Python, cURL, and other languages; four model variants are available.

### Hugging Face — Stable Diffusion XL on Mac with Advanced Core ML Quantization

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-07-27
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/stable-diffusion-xl-coreml
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2020-stable-diffusion-xl-on-mac-with-advanced-core-ml-quantization
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face and Apple released Core ML versions of Stable Diffusion XL for Mac, including a mixed-bit palettization technique that compresses the model from 4.8 GB to 1.4 GB (71% reduction) while maintaining quality. The release includes ported base models, updated conversion and inference tools, and a demo app.

### OpenAI — Frontier Model Forum

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2023-07-26T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/frontier-model-forum
- Record: https://forck.live/items/848-frontier-model-forum
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI is forming a new industry body to promote safe and responsible development of frontier AI systems.

### Replicate — Run SDXL with an API

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2023-07-26
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/run-sdxl-with-an-api
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2562-run-sdxl-with-an-api
- Subject: Platform

Replicate announces that SDXL 1.0 is now available on its platform, enabling users to run the model via API for text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting, and refiner tasks, with official client libraries for Python, Node.js, Swift, and Go.

### LG AI Research — LG AI Talk Concert 2023 - First Reveal of “EXAONE 2.0”

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2023-07-25
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=331
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11047-lg-ai-talk-concert-2023-first-reveal-of-exaone-2-0
- Subject: EXAONE

At the LG AI Talk Concert 2023, LG AI Research unveiled EXAONE 2.0, a large-scale multimodal AI that is bilingual in Korean and English. It was trained on approximately 45 million professional documents and 350 million images. The company introduced three EXAONE platforms: Universe (expert conversational AI), Discovery (generative AI for experimental prediction), and Atelier (multimodal AI for image creation and understanding).

### LG AI Research — LG AI Talk Concert 2023 - First Reveal of “EXAONE 2.0”

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2023-07-25
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=331
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4897-lg-ai-talk-concert-2023-first-reveal-of-exaone-2-0
- Subject: EXAONE

LG AI Research reveals EXAONE 2.0, an enhanced large-scale multimodal AI, at the LG AI Talk Concert 2023. It is a bilingual model (Korean and English) trained on approximately 45 million professional documents and 350 million images, with improvements in data quality, ratio efficiency, and customization. The event also introduces three platforms (EXAONE Universe, Discovery, Atelier) based on the model.

### Hugging Face — Introducing Agents.js: Give tools to your LLMs using JavaScript

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-07-24
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/agents-js
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2022-introducing-agents-js-give-tools-to-your-llms-using-javascript
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face introduced Agents.js, a JavaScript library for giving tool access to LLMs, with support for custom LLMs and tools, and a demo.

### Hugging Face — AI Policy @🤗: Open ML Considerations in the EU AI Act

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-07-24
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/eu-ai-act-oss
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2021-ai-policy-open-ml-considerations-in-the-eu-ai-act
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face publishes a position paper on open ML considerations in the EU AI Act, making five recommendations to better support open-source development.