# forck.live — 25–31 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-W52, 25–31 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-W52
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replit — Landscape or Portrait? You Decide

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-12-28T17:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/rotation-on-mobile
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18010-landscape-or-portrait-you-decide
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit updated its mobile app to support both landscape and portrait orientations, improving the coding experience on devices like the iPad mini and Pixel Fold. The update involved handling screen edge insets, creating an orientation API, and adjusting UI elements such as the header and workspace bottom bar. This is the first of several planned improvements for the mobile app.

### Replit — Replit in Review: A Recap of What We Shipped in 2023

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-12-27T17:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/replit-recap-2023
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18011-replit-in-review-a-recap-of-what-we-shipped-in-2023
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit recapped its 2023 product releases, including the conversational AI programmer Ghostwriter Chat, Replit Deployments, the Replit Desktop App, and the open-source Replit Code V1.5 3B model. The company also made AI code completion free for all users and introduced features such as expandable storage, secret scanning, and ModelFarm for building generative AI applications.

### Replit — Introducing Spellburst, A Replit x Stanford HAI Collaboration

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-12-26T17:27:12+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/spellburst
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18012-introducing-spellburst-a-replit-x-stanford-hai-collaboration
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit and Stanford HAI published Spellburst, a peer-reviewed research paper presented at UIST 2023. Spellburst is an LLM-powered creative coding environment that lets users create, modify, and merge p5.js sketches using natural language prompts and hybrid controls. The paper is based on a formative study with 10 expert generative artists and an evaluative study with various experts.