# forck.live — 21–27 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-W34, 21–27 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-W34 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replit — Packages: Powered Up - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-08-25 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/packages-powered-up - Record: https://forck.live/items/18200-packages-powered-up - Subject: Replit Agent Replit released upgrades to its Packages tool, including streamlined package installation with suggested packages for JavaScript and Python, queuing of install/uninstall actions for batching, improved error handling with detailed insights, and responsive resizing for different pane sizes. ### Hugging Face — Deprecation of Git Authentication using password - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-08-25 - Category: deprecation - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/password-git-deprecation - Record: https://forck.live/items/2006-deprecation-of-git-authentication-using-password - Subject: Platform Hugging Face Hub will deprecate password-based Git authentication starting October 1, 2023, requiring users to switch to personal access tokens or SSH keys. ### Hugging Face — Code Llama: Llama 2 learns to code - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-08-25 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/codellama - Record: https://forck.live/items/2005-code-llama-llama-2-learns-to-code - Subject: Platform Meta released Code Llama, a family of open-access code-specialized models based on Llama 2, with sizes 7B, 13B, and 34B parameters, including base, Python specialist, and instruct variants, trained on 500B tokens of code data, with a 16k context window (extrapolatable to 100k), and integrated into the Hugging Face ecosystem. ### OpenAI — OpenAI partners with Scale to provide support for enterprises fine-tuning models - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-08-24T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-partners-with-scale-to-provide-support-for-enterprises-fine-tuning-models - Record: https://forck.live/items/843-openai-partners-with-scale-to-provide-support-for-enterprises-fine-tuning-models - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces a partnership with Scale to help enterprise customers fine-tune OpenAI's advanced models using Scale's AI expertise. ### Hugging Face — Making LLMs lighter with AutoGPTQ and transformers - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-08-23 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/gptq-integration - Record: https://forck.live/items/2007-making-llms-lighter-with-autogptq-and-transformers - Subject: Platform Hugging Face integrated the AutoGPTQ library into Transformers, enabling users to quantize and run models in 8, 4, 3, or 2-bit precision using the GPTQ algorithm with negligible accuracy degradation for 4-bit quantization. The integration supports Nvidia and AMD GPUs. ### OpenAI — GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-08-22T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-3-5-turbo-fine-tuning-and-api-updates - Record: https://forck.live/items/844-gpt-3-5-turbo-fine-tuning-and-api-updates - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces that developers can now use their own data to fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo for custom use cases. ### Replicate — Painting with words: a history of text-to-image AI - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2023-08-22 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/painting-with-words-a-history-of-text-to-image-ai - Record: https://forck.live/items/2556-painting-with-words-a-history-of-text-to-image-ai - Subject: Platform A historical overview of text-to-image AI, from early CLIP-based models to Stable Diffusion XL, and marks the 1-year anniversary of Stable Diffusion. ### Hugging Face — Introducing SafeCoder - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-08-22 - Category: product-launch - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/safecoder - Record: https://forck.live/items/2008-introducing-safecoder - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announced SafeCoder, a self-hosted, privacy-focused code assistant solution for enterprises, built on the StarCoder family of Code LLMs, with security and compliance principles.