# forck.live — 30 October – 5 November 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-W44, 30 October – 5 November 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-W44
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### xAI — Announcing Grok

- Company: xAI (x.ai)
- Announced: 2023-11-03
- Category: product-launch
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://x.ai/news/grok
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4359-announcing-grok
- Subject: Grok

xAI announces Grok, an AI assistant modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with real-time knowledge via the X platform and a rebellious sense of humor. It is currently in early beta.

### Hugging Face — Introducing Storage Regions on the HF Hub

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-11-03
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/regions
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1977-introducing-storage-regions-on-the-hf-hub
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face Hub introduces Storage Regions, allowing organizations to choose where their models and datasets are stored for regulatory compliance and performance improvements.

### Factory AI — Announcing our $5M fundraise from Sequoia and Lux to Bring Autonomy to Software Engineering

- Company: Factory AI (factory.com)
- Announced: 2023-11-02
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://factory.com/news/announcing-our-5m-fundraise
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17815-announcing-our-5m-fundraise-from-sequoia-and-lux-to-bring-autonomy-to-software
- Subject: Droid

Factory announced a $5 million seed funding round led by Sequoia and Lux, with participation from SV Angel, BoxGroup, and others. The company builds autonomous AI-powered systems called Droids that automate software development lifecycle tasks such as planning features, solving bugs, writing tests, reviewing code, and writing documentation.

### Isomorphic Labs — A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold

- Company: Isomorphic Labs (isomorphiclabs.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-31
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/articles/a-glimpse-of-the-next-generation-of-alphafold
- Record: https://forck.live/items/19148-a-glimpse-of-the-next-generation-of-alphafold
- Subject: Drug Design Engine / AlphaFold

Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind shared an update on the next generation of AlphaFold. The model can now generate predictions for nearly all molecules in the Protein Data Bank, frequently reaching atomic accuracy, and covers ligands, proteins, nucleic acids, and post-translational modifications. It outperforms the best reported docking methods for protein-ligand structure prediction without requiring a reference protein structure or ligand pocket location.