# forck.live — 11–17 March 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-W11, 11–17 March 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-W11 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### xAI — Open Release of Grok-1 - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2024-03-17 - Category: open-weight-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-os - Record: https://forck.live/items/4357-open-release-of-grok-1 - Subject: Grok xAI released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, under the Apache 2.0 license. The model is the raw checkpoint from pre-training in October 2023 and is not fine-tuned for any specific application. ### Nous Research — DSJJJJ: Simulacra in the Stupor of Becoming - Company: Nous Research (nousresearch.com) - Announced: 2024-03-16T03:29:57+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://nousresearch.com/dsjjjj-simulacra-in-the-stupor-of-becoming - Record: https://forck.live/items/24039-dsjjjj-simulacra-in-the-stupor-of-becoming - Subject: Hermes models Desideratic AI ( DSJJJJ ) is a philosophical movement focused on creating AI systems using concepts traditionally found in monism, mereology, and philology. ### LG AI Research — AI Elections Accord: Global Companies Team Up to Combat Election Deepfakes - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-03-15 - Category: safety-policy-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=418 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11031-ai-elections-accord-global-companies-team-up-to-combat-election-deepfakes - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research joined 19 other global companies, including Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, in signing the AI Elections Accord at the Munich Security Conference. The accord aims to combat election-related deepfakes through technological solutions like invisible watermarking and campaigns to prevent the spread of deceptive AI-generated content. LG AI Research is the only Korean company among the signatories. ### LG AI Research — AI Elections Accord: Global Companies Team Up to Combat Election Deepfakes - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-03-15 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=418 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4860-ai-elections-accord-global-companies-team-up-to-combat-election-deepfakes - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research joins 20 global companies, including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, in signing the AI Elections Accord at the Munich Security Conference to combat election-related deepfakes. The accord aims to establish safety devices for deepfake content creation and consumption, invest in invisible watermarking technology, and launch campaigns to prevent spread of deepfake content. LG AI Research is the only Korean company to sign. ### Hugging Face — Unlocking the conversion of Web Screenshots into HTML Code with the WebSight Dataset - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-03-15 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/websight - Record: https://forck.live/items/1928-unlocking-the-conversion-of-web-screenshots-into-html-code-with-the-websight - Subject: Platform Hugging Face introduces the WebSight dataset, a large synthetic dataset of screenshot/HTML code pairs for training AI models to convert web screenshots into HTML code. The dataset has been updated to version 0.2, featuring 2 million examples and improvements like real images and Tailwind CSS. A model fine-tuned on this dataset, Sightseer, is also presented. ### Hugging Face — CPU Optimized Embeddings with 🤗 Optimum Intel and fastRAG - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-03-15 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/intel-fast-embedding - Record: https://forck.live/items/1927-cpu-optimized-embeddings-with-optimum-intel-and-fastrag - Subject: Platform Hugging Face and Intel announce CPU-optimized embeddings using Optimum Intel and fastRAG, focusing on BGE models (small, base, large) to accelerate semantic search and RAG pipelines on Xeon CPUs. ### OpenAI — Global news partnerships: Le Monde and Prisa Media - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-03-13T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/global-news-partnerships-le-monde-and-prisa-media - Record: https://forck.live/items/800-global-news-partnerships-le-monde-and-prisa-media - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI has partnered with Le Monde and Prisa Media to bring French and Spanish news content to ChatGPT. ### OpenAI — Saving lives with AI health coaching - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-03-13T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/healthify - Record: https://forck.live/items/799-saving-lives-with-ai-health-coaching - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Healthify collaborates with OpenAI to improve millions of lives with sustainable weight loss. ### Recraft — Recraft V2 - Company: Recraft (recraft.ai) - Announced: 2024-03-13 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.recraft.ai/blog/recraft-v2 - Record: https://forck.live/items/23992-recraft-v2 - Subject: Recraft V4 Recraft – the first AI model built for designers – beats top performing image generation models across multiple challenges AI tools are amazing. But not all are right for designers. ### Upstage — How to use ‘Solar’ LLM vol. 1 - Tips for writing an effective project proposal - Company: Upstage (upstage.ai) - Announced: 2024-03-13 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.upstage.ai/blog/en/solar-llm-for-writing-project-proposals - Record: https://forck.live/items/18486-how-to-use-solar-llm-vol-1-tips-for-writing-an-effective-project-proposal - Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini Upstage published a guide on using its Solar LLM for writing project proposals, including outlining, revising technical writing, and generating presentations. The post highlights Solar's performance comparable to GPT-3.5 with fewer parameters and 2.5 times faster speeds, and notes that the Solar API Beta is free until March 31, 2024. ### LG AI Research — LG-The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), Jointly Researching AI to Unlock the Secrets of Genomics - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-03-11 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=416 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11032-lg-the-jackson-laboratory-jax-jointly-researching-ai-to-unlock-the-secrets-of - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research and the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) signed a partnership to jointly develop AI for genomics, focusing on Alzheimer's disease and cancer. The collaboration will train LG's multimodal AI model EXAONE on JAX's genetic research data to analyze disease onset and progression, predict treatment effectiveness, and develop multimodal generative AI models for cancer diagnosis and personalized treatment suggestions. The organizations expect the AI to shorten drug development timelines and advance precision medicine. ### LG AI Research — LG-The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), Jointly Researching AI to Unlock the Secrets of Genomics - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-03-11 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=416 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4861-lg-the-jackson-laboratory-jax-jointly-researching-ai-to-unlock-the-secrets-of - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research and the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) announced a partnership to jointly develop AI for genomics research, focusing on Alzheimer's disease and cancer. They plan to train LG's multimodal AI EXAONE on JAX's genetic data and apply time series forecasting to improve disease diagnosis and treatment.