# forck.live — 18–24 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-W51, 18–24 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-W51 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replit — Dec 12 Incident Update: Secrets and repl.co Static Hosting Unavailable - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-12-21T09:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/dec-12-secrets-static-hosting - Record: https://forck.live/items/18015-dec-12-incident-update-secrets-and-repl-co-static-hosting-unavailable - Subject: Replit Agent Replit reported that between December 12 and 16, Secrets in interactive Repls and files in its legacy repl.co static hosting were unavailable due to a misconfiguration in Google Cloud Storage lifecycle settings. The company recovered all known user Secrets and implemented new data retention procedures to prevent recurrence. ### Hugging Face — Speculative Decoding for 2x Faster Whisper Inference - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-12-20 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/whisper-speculative-decoding - Record: https://forck.live/items/1964-speculative-decoding-for-2x-faster-whisper-inference - Subject: Platform Hugging Face demonstrates how Speculative Decoding can reduce Whisper inference time by a factor of 2 while ensuring exactly the same outputs, making it a drop-in replacement for existing Whisper pipelines. ### Harvey — Harvey raises $80M Series B from Elad Gil, Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI and Sequoia - Company: Harvey (harvey.ai) - Announced: 2023-12-19T21:34:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/series-b - Record: https://forck.live/items/17736-harvey-raises-80m-series-b-from-elad-gil-kleiner-perkins-openai-and-sequoia - Subject: Harvey Harvey raised $80 million in Series B funding co-led by Elad Gil and Kleiner Perkins, with participation from OpenAI Startup Fund and Sequoia, at a $715 million valuation. The round brings total funding to over $100 million. Revenue has increased more than tenfold since April, and the company plans to use the funds to expand custom model building, scale its team, and develop product features. ### Replit — GitHub x Replit Workflows: Enhancing Developer Productivity - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2023-12-19T17:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/github - Record: https://forck.live/items/18016-github-x-replit-workflows-enhancing-developer-productivity - Subject: Replit Agent Replit redesigned its GitHub integration, including a new import form with search filters and direct URL imports, streamlined authentication, and an improved Git Pane with features like commit view, diff viewing, and flexible repository initialization. ### LG AI Research — KorQuAD 2.0 1st rank: Generative Model for Long Context Question Answering - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2023-12-19 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=374 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4881-korquad-2-0-1st-rank-generative-model-for-long-context-question-answering - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research achieved 1st rank on the Korean machine reading comprehension benchmark KorQuAD 2.0 using their in-house developed EXAONE LM 1.0 model, employing post-training techniques (QA, HTML-T5) to handle HTML documents and long contexts. ### Hugging Face — 2023, year of open LLMs - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2023-12-18 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/2023-in-llms - Record: https://forck.live/items/1965-2023-year-of-open-llms - Subject: Platform Open LLMs in 2023, discussing model architecture, training data, tokenizers, and fine-tuning, and reviewing notable open models from 2022 such as BLOOM and OPT.