# forck.live — 15–21 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-W03, 15–21 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-W03 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Vercel — How Core Web Vitals affect SEO - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-01-19T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/how-core-web-vitals-affect-seo - Record: https://forck.live/items/21015-how-core-web-vitals-affect-seo - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel's guide explains that Google uses Core Web Vitals field data from real users—specifically Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)—to influence search ranking, while Lighthouse lab scores are not considered. The post details how field data is collected via the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX), which excludes iPhone users and requires pages to be sufficiently popular and publicly discoverable. It notes that page experience is one of many ranking factors, with query relevancy and content quality being substantially more important. ### Upstage — Leveraging large language models for business transformation - Company: Upstage (upstage.ai) - Announced: 2024-01-19 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.upstage.ai/blog/en/leveraging-llms-for-business-transformation - Record: https://forck.live/items/18488-leveraging-large-language-models-for-business-transformation - Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini The rise of large language models in business One of the keys to success in business is efficiency. Companies are constantly seeking ways to accelerate their business, maximize productivity, and achieve cost efficiency by leveraging technology. ### Hugging Face — PatchTSMixer in HuggingFace - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-01-19 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/patchtsmixer - Record: https://forck.live/items/1956-patchtsmixer-in-huggingface - Subject: Platform IBM Research and Hugging Face release PatchTSMixer, a lightweight time-series model based on the MLP-Mixer architecture, in the Transformers library, supporting forecasting, classification, and regression tasks. ### Hugging Face — Fine-Tune W2V2-Bert for low-resource ASR with 🤗 Transformers - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-01-19 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/fine-tune-w2v2-bert - Record: https://forck.live/items/1955-fine-tune-w2v2-bert-for-low-resource-asr-with-transformers - Subject: Platform This is a blog post that provides a tutorial on fine-tuning the Wav2Vec2-BERT model for low-resource automatic speech recognition using Hugging Face Transformers, inspired by earlier fine-tuning guides for XLS-R and MMS Adapter Models. ### Hugging Face — Preference Tuning LLMs with Direct Preference Optimization Methods - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-01-18 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/pref-tuning - Record: https://forck.live/items/1957-preference-tuning-llms-with-direct-preference-optimization-methods - Subject: Platform This blog post empirically evaluates three preference tuning methods (DPO, IPO, KTO) on two 7B LLMs, sweeping hyperparameters and evaluating with MT-Bench. ### Supabase — What is SAML? A practical guide to the authentication protocol - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-01-17 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/what-is-saml-authentication - Record: https://forck.live/items/21454-what-is-saml-a-practical-guide-to-the-authentication-protocol - Subject: Supabase Supabase published a practical guide explaining the SAML authentication protocol, how it works, and how it differs from SSO. The post uses a story about a company setting up SAML between Supabase and GSuite to illustrate the information exchange required. ### Vercel — Architecting a live look at reliability: Stripe's viral Black Friday site - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-01-16T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/architecting-reliability-stripes-black-friday-site - Record: https://forck.live/items/21016-architecting-a-live-look-at-reliability-stripe-s-viral-black-friday-site - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel published a case study describing how Stripe built a real-time, publicly accessible microsite in 19 days to showcase transaction data during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The site used Vercel's infrastructure with Next.js, SWR, and ISR to handle over 17 million edge requests at launch with 100% uptime. ### OpenAI — Democratic inputs to AI grant program: lessons learned and implementation plans - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-01-16T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/democratic-inputs-to-ai-grant-program-update - Record: https://forck.live/items/812-democratic-inputs-to-ai-grant-program-lessons-learned-and-implementation-plans - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI funded 10 teams to design ideas and tools for collective AI governance, summarizing innovations and learnings, and calling for researchers and engineers to join. ### Sakana AI — We raised $30M to develop nature-inspired AI in Japan - Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai) - Announced: 2024-01-15T15:00:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://sakana.ai/seed-round - Record: https://forck.live/items/4732-we-raised-30m-to-develop-nature-inspired-ai-in-japan - Subject: Sakana models Sakana AI announces a $30M seed funding round led by Lux Capital with participation from Khosla Ventures and other investors. ### OpenAI — How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-01-15T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: safety-policy-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/how-openai-is-approaching-2024-worldwide-elections - Record: https://forck.live/items/813-how-openai-is-approaching-2024-worldwide-elections - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI describes its approach to the 2024 worldwide elections, focusing on preventing abuse, providing transparency on AI-generated content, and improving access to accurate voting information. ### Hugging Face — Accelerating SD Turbo and SDXL Turbo Inference with ONNX Runtime and Olive - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-01-15 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/sdxl_ort_inference - Record: https://forck.live/items/1958-accelerating-sd-turbo-and-sdxl-turbo-inference-with-onnx-runtime-and-olive - Subject: Platform To accelerate SD Turbo and SDXL Turbo inference using ONNX Runtime and Olive, with performance benchmarks showing up to 229% throughput gains for SDXL Turbo and 120% for SD Turbo.