# forck.live — 14–20 August 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-W33, 14–20 August 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-W33 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replit — Performance Mystery: Is Golang's Startup Time Slow? - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-08-18 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/golang-performance - Record: https://forck.live/items/18050-performance-mystery-is-golang-s-startup-time-slow - Subject: Replit Agent Replit's engineering team investigated why their Universal Package Manager (UPM), written in Go, took approximately 200ms for trivial operations. They found that the startup delay occurred before the first line of Go code executed, indicating the time was spent on binary loading rather than Go runtime performance. ### OpenAI — OpenAI acquires Global Illumination - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-08-16T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-global-illumination - Record: https://forck.live/items/845-openai-acquires-global-illumination - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI has acquired Global Illumination and its entire team has joined OpenAI. ### Replit — New Workspace Features to Keep Your API Keys Safe - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-08-16 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/secret-scanner - Record: https://forck.live/items/18222-new-workspace-features-to-keep-your-api-keys-safe - Subject: Replit Agent Replit introduced a Secret Scanner that warns users when they paste a likely API key or token into a file and offers to store it as a Secret instead. The scanner runs client-side and uses known API key patterns and regexes. Since its initial launch, the feature has prevented more than 500 API keys and secrets from being exposed in open source code on Replit.com. ### Replicate — We're cutting our prices in half - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2023-08-16 - Category: pricing-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/cutting-prices-in-half - Record: https://forck.live/items/2557-we-re-cutting-our-prices-in-half - Subject: Platform Replicate announced a 50% reduction in per-second pricing for public models across all hardware. New prices range from $0.000100/s for CPU to $0.001400/s for Nvidia A100 (80GB). Private models will also see price cuts, but with new billing for startup and idle time, applicable to new users or opt-in for existing users. ### OpenAI — Using GPT-4 for content moderation - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-08-15T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/using-gpt-4-for-content-moderation - Record: https://forck.live/items/846-using-gpt-4-for-content-moderation - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI uses GPT-4 for content policy development and content moderation decisions to achieve more consistent labeling, a faster feedback loop for policy refinement, and reduced reliance on human moderators. ### Replicate — Streaming output for language models - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2023-08-14 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/streaming - Record: https://forck.live/items/2559-streaming-output-for-language-models - Subject: Platform Replicate's API now supports server-sent event streams for language models, allowing users to receive real-time token-by-token output by setting the stream option to true and connecting to a stream URL. ### Replicate — A guide to prompting Llama 2 - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2023-08-14 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/how-to-prompt-llama - Record: https://forck.live/items/2558-a-guide-to-prompting-llama-2 - Subject: Platform To prompt Llama 2, covering system prompts, chat prompt formatting, model variants, and prompting tips.