# forck.live — 6–12 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-W45, 6–12 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-W45 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replicate — Using open-source models for faster and cheaper text embeddings - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2023-11-10 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/run-bge-embedding-models - Record: https://forck.live/items/2547-using-open-source-models-for-faster-and-cheaper-text-embeddings - Subject: Platform This blog post from Replicate provides a guide on using the open-source BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5 model for text embeddings. It covers prerequisites, installation, generating embeddings from a list of text and from JSONL files, and a real-world example using the SAMSum dataset. The post notes that the model is state-of-the-art, open source, and cheaper to run on Replicate compared to OpenAI embeddings. ### OpenAI — OpenAI Data Partnerships - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-11-09T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/data-partnerships - Record: https://forck.live/items/826-openai-data-partnerships - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces data partnerships to create open-source and private datasets for AI training. ### Hugging Face — SDXL in 4 steps with Latent Consistency LoRAs - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-11-09 - Category: open-weight-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/lcm_lora - Record: https://forck.live/items/1973-sdxl-in-4-steps-with-latent-consistency-loras - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces LCM LoRAs, a method to make Stable Diffusion and SDXL generate images in 4 steps instead of 25-50, by training small LoRA adapters instead of full model distillation. The LoRAs are released on the Hub and can be applied to any fine-tuned SDXL model. ### Replicate — Generate music from chord progressions and text prompts with MusicGen-Chord - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2023-11-08 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/generate-music-from-chord-progressions-musicgen-chord - Record: https://forck.live/items/2548-generate-music-from-chord-progressions-and-text-prompts-with-musicgen-chord - Subject: Platform Replicate announces MusicGen-Chord, a model that generates music from text prompts, chord progressions, and tempo, based on Meta's MusicGen model. ### Hugging Face — Comparing the Performance of LLMs: A Deep Dive into Roberta, Llama 2, and Mistral for Disaster Tweets Analysis with Lora - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-11-07 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/Lora-for-sequence-classification-with-Roberta-Llama-Mistral - Record: https://forck.live/items/1976-comparing-the-performance-of-llms-a-deep-dive-into-roberta-llama-2-and-mistral - Subject: Platform This blog post compares the performance of RoBERTa, Mistral-7b, and Llama-2-7b models using LoRA fine-tuning for classifying disaster-related tweets. ### Hugging Face — Introducing Prodigy-HF: a direct integration with Hugging Face - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-11-07 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/prodigy-hf - Record: https://forck.live/items/1975-introducing-prodigy-hf-a-direct-integration-with-hugging-face - Subject: Platform Explosion released Prodigy-HF, a plugin that integrates the Prodigy annotation tool with the Hugging Face stack, allowing users to fine-tune Hugging Face models on annotated data and upload datasets to the Hugging Face Hub. ### Hugging Face — Make your llama generation time fly with AWS Inferentia2 - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-11-07 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/inferentia-llama2 - Record: https://forck.live/items/1974-make-your-llama-generation-time-fly-with-aws-inferentia2 - Subject: Platform The blog post from Hugging Face explains how to use optimum-neuron to deploy Llama 2 models for text generation on AWS Inferentia2, covering setup, model export, generation, and benchmarks. ### Replit — Prioritizing Employee Liquidity at Replit - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-11-06T17:00:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/prioritizing-employee-liquidity - Record: https://forck.live/items/18026-prioritizing-employee-liquidity-at-replit - Subject: Replit Agent Replit completed its first tender offer, allowing current and former employees to sell vested shares for liquidity. The company also announced that Craft Ventures is joining as an investor, with a focus on supporting the operating team. ### OpenAI — New models and developer products announced at DevDay - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-11-06T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday - Record: https://forck.live/items/828-new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announced GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, and DALL·E 3 API at DevDay. ### OpenAI — Introducing GPTs - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-11-06T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpts - Record: https://forck.live/items/827-introducing-gpts - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announced that users can now create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills. ### xAI — Announcing PromptIDE - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2023-11-06 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://x.ai/news/prompt-ide - Record: https://forck.live/items/4358-announcing-promptide - Subject: Grok xAI announces the PromptIDE, an integrated development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research, featuring a Python SDK, analytics, versioning, and public sharing, available via early access.