# forck.live — 1–7 January 2024 > 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 2024-W01, 1–7 January 2024, 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/2024-W01 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Isomorphic Labs — Isomorphic Labs kicks off 2024 with two pharmaceutical collaborations - Company: Isomorphic Labs (isomorphiclabs.com) - Announced: 2024-01-07 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/articles/isomorphic-labs-kicks-off-2024-with-two-pharmaceutical-collaborations - Record: https://forck.live/items/19139-isomorphic-labs-kicks-off-2024-with-two-pharmaceutical-collaborations - Subject: Drug Design Engine / AlphaFold Isomorphic Labs announced strategic collaborations with Eli Lilly and Company and Novartis. The partnerships are multi-target, focused on small molecules, and have a potential combined value of nearly $3 billion, excluding future royalties. Isomorphic Labs will receive $45 million upfront from Eli Lilly and $37.5 million upfront from Novartis. ### Supabase — Supabase Beta December 2023 - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-01-05 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/beta-update-december-2023 - Record: https://forck.live/items/21458-supabase-beta-december-2023 - Subject: Supabase Supabase announced several new features during Launch Week X, including an AI assistant and user impersonation in Supabase Studio, native npm and Node.js support for Edge Functions, database branching linked to GitHub branches, and new Auth features such as identity linking, session control, leaked password protection, and auth hooks. The company also introduced Read Replicas for serving data closer to users or distributing loads across multiple databases. ### LG AI Research — Trends in the Use of AI in Materials Science from the 2023 MRS Fall Meeting - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-01-05 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=378 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4880-trends-in-the-use-of-ai-in-materials-science-from-the-2023-mrs-fall-meeting - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research summarizes trends in AI for materials science from the 2023 MRS Fall Meeting, highlighting Google DeepMind's GNoME model and autonomous laboratory research. ### Vercel — Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study: Vercel delivered a 264% ROI - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-01-04T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/forrester-total-economic-impact-vercel-ROI - Record: https://forck.live/items/21018-forrester-total-economic-impact-study-vercel-delivered-a-264-roi - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway A commissioned Forrester Consulting study found that Vercel's Frontend Cloud delivered a three-year 264% ROI and $9.53 million in quantifiable benefits for customers. Developers spent 90% less time managing frontend infrastructure and 80% less time building and deploying code, while releasing four times more major website enhancements. The study also reported $2.6 million in incremental profits from higher conversion rates and $7.7 million from increased website traffic. ### OpenAI — Delivering LLM-powered health solutions - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-01-04T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/whoop - Record: https://forck.live/items/818-delivering-llm-powered-health-solutions - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API WHOOP is using GPT-4 to deliver personalized fitness and health coaching. ### Supabase — Launch Week X Hackathon Winners - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-01-04 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/launch-week-x-hackathon-winners - Record: https://forck.live/items/21459-launch-week-x-hackathon-winners - Subject: Supabase Supabase announced the winners of its Launch Week X Hackathon, with 64 submissions across five categories. The best overall project was Supafork, an open-source tool for cloning Supabase projects. ### Hugging Face — Welcome aMUSEd: Efficient Text-to-Image Generation - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-01-04 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/amused - Record: https://forck.live/items/1962-welcome-amused-efficient-text-to-image-generation - Subject: Platform Hugging Face introduces aMUSEd, an efficient non-diffusion text-to-image model based on Masked Image Modeling, as an open reproduction of Google's MUSE. It is released as a research preview with a permissive license, integrated into the diffusers library, and features ~800M parameters with zero-shot inpainting capability. ### Hugging Face — LoRA training scripts of the world, unite! - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-01-02 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/sdxl_lora_advanced_script - Record: https://forck.live/items/1963-lora-training-scripts-of-the-world-unite - Subject: Platform A community guide combining Pivotal Tuning and Prodigy optimizer techniques for SDXL Dreambooth LoRA fine-tuning, with a new training script released on diffusers.