# forck.live — 27 November – 3 December 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-W48, 27 November – 3 December 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-W48 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Hugging Face — Open LLM Leaderboard: DROP deep dive - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-12-01 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-llm-leaderboard-drop - Record: https://forck.live/items/1972-open-llm-leaderboard-drop-deep-dive - Subject: Platform This blog post investigates unexpectedly low DROP benchmark scores on the Open LLM Leaderboard, identifying issues with normalization and the use of '.' as an end-of-generation token, and proposes using '\n' instead. ### LG AI Research — Chief Kyunghoon Bae Gains Recognition for His Leadership in Innovative AI - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-11-30 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=360 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11040-chief-kyunghoon-bae-gains-recognition-for-his-leadership-in-innovative-ai - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research chief Kyunghoon Bae received the Silver Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit at the 24th Software Industry Day event for his contributions to the software industry through AI technologies. The award recognized his leadership in advancing LG Group's AI capabilities, including the development of the EXAONE model and AI artist Tilda, as well as his work on AI ethics principles and talent cultivation. ### LG AI Research — Chief Kyunghoon Bae Gains Recognition for His Leadership in Innovative AI - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-11-30 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=360 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4884-chief-kyunghoon-bae-gains-recognition-for-his-leadership-in-innovative-ai - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research chief Kyunghoon Bae receives the Silver Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit for contributions to the software and AI industries. ### Replit — Replit + Weights & Biases: Building a RAG Bot - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-11-29T23:55:30+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/wandbot - Record: https://forck.live/items/17995-replit-weights-biases-building-a-rag-bot - Subject: Replit Agent Weights & Biases built WandBot, a RAG-based question-answering bot using llama-index, FAISS, Cohere embeddings, and OpenAI's GPT-4, integrated with Discord, Slack, Zendesk, and ChatGPT. The bot is open-sourced under Apache 2.0 and can be deployed on Replit. The post describes how to set up and use WandBot, and notes that Replit Deployments scale automatically. ### OpenAI — Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2023-11-29T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board - Record: https://forck.live/items/824-sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces that Sam Altman has returned as CEO and a new initial board has been formed, with Mira Murati as CTO and Greg Brockman returning as President. ### LG AI Research — LG AI Expert Course 2023 2nd Graduation & Achievements Sharing Session - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-11-29 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=359 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11041-lg-ai-expert-course-2023-2nd-graduation-achievements-sharing-session - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research concluded the second 2023 LG AI Expert Course, a 12-week program in which 12 participants from six LG subsidiaries completed research projects under expert mentorship. At the closing ceremony, three projects received Best Practice Awards, including work on optimizing the EXAONE language model for a knowledge graph question answering system. ### LG AI Research — LG AI Expert Course 2023 2nd Graduation & Achievements Sharing Session - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-11-29 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=359 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4885-lg-ai-expert-course-2023-2nd-graduation-achievements-sharing-session - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research announced the graduation and achievements sharing session for the 2nd LG AI Expert Course of 2023. The 12-week program involved 12 participants from six LG subsidiaries. The top project winner optimized the EXAONE language model for a Knowledge Graph Question Answering system.