# forck.live — 9–15 October 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-W41, 9–15 October 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-W41
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replicate — Fine-tune MusicGen to generate music in any style

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-13
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/fine-tune-musicgen
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2551-fine-tune-musicgen-to-generate-music-in-any-style
- Subject: Platform

Replicate published a guide on how to fine-tune Meta's MusicGen model to generate music in a specific style, using a small dataset of 9-10 tracks and training for 15 minutes on 8x A40 hardware. The fine-tuned model can be run via web or API, and weights can be downloaded.

### Replit — Tabs and Spaces - Smarter Indentation

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-12T20:51:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/smarter-indentation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18031-tabs-and-spaces-smarter-indentation
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit released a suite of new indentation and whitespace features for its code editor, including automatic indentation detection, a status-bar indentation menu, smarter pasting that re-indents copied code, and a setting to show whitespace. Users can now set indentation sizes between 1 and 16 spaces.

### OpenAI — Evolving online forms into dynamic data

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-11T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/typeform
- Record: https://forck.live/items/834-evolving-online-forms-into-dynamic-data
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

Typeform uses GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to transform online forms into dynamic, conversational data collection experiences.

### OpenAI — Building AI-powered apps for business

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-11T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/retool
- Record: https://forck.live/items/833-building-ai-powered-apps-for-business
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

Retool uses GPT-4 to help businesses build AI-powered apps quickly and securely.

### OpenAI — Simplifying contract reviews with AI

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-11T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/ironclad
- Record: https://forck.live/items/832-simplifying-contract-reviews-with-ai
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

Ironclad uses GPT-4 to simplify the contract review process.

### Runway — Mitigating stereotypical biases in text to image generative systems

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-10T22:24:14.964000+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://runway.com/research/mitigating-stereotypical-biases-in-text-to-image-generative-systems
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7934-mitigating-stereotypical-biases-in-text-to-image-generative-systems
- Subject: Gen / Aleph

Runway proposes a method to mitigate social biases in text-to-image generative models by finetuning on synthetic data that varies in perceived skin tones and genders. Their diversity finetuned (DFT) model improves group fairness by 150% for perceived skin tone and 97.7% for perceived gender. The company will release all text prompts and code to generate training images.

### Replit — Replit’s new AI Model now available on Hugging Face

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-10T20:51:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/replit-code-v1_5
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18032-replit-s-new-ai-model-now-available-on-hugging-face
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit released its new code generation language model Replit Code V1.5 3B on Hugging Face. The model is trained on 1 trillion tokens of permissively licensed code and supports Replit's top 30 programming languages. It is intended for use as a foundation for application-specific fine-tuning without strict limitations on commercial use.

### Replit — Announcing Replit AI for All

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-09T20:51:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/ai4all
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17973-announcing-replit-ai-for-all
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit is making its AI code completion and assistance features available to all users by default, including those on the free plan, reaching 23 million developers. The company is also releasing replit-code-v1.5-3b, a 3B parameter LLM trained on 1 trillion tokens from a code-heavy dataset covering 30 programming languages, which will be gradually rolled out to improve code completion. The Ghostwriter branding is being retired as AI becomes integrated across all Replit features.

### Replicate — Jet-setting with Llama 2 + Grammars

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-09
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/llama-2-grammars
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2552-jet-setting-with-llama-2-grammars
- Subject: Platform

To use Llama 2 models with built-in grammar support on Replicate for structured information extraction, exemplified by parsing flight confirmation emails into JSON.