# forck.live — 25–31 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-W13, 25–31 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-W13 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replit — Searching Nixpkgs in Under 30 Milliseconds - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2024-03-29T15:39:44+00:00 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/nixpkgs-search - Record: https://forck.live/items/18001-searching-nixpkgs-in-under-30-milliseconds - Subject: Replit Agent Replit released rippkgs, a CLI utility for indexing and searching Nix expressions, and rippkgs-index, which evaluates nixpkgs to create an SQLite index database for fast local searches. ### Vercel — Demant achieves global scalability and 30x faster response times with Vercel - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-03-29T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/demant-achieves-global-scalability-and-30x-faster-response-times-with-vercel - Record: https://forck.live/items/20998-demant-achieves-global-scalability-and-30x-faster-response-times-with-vercel - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Demant, a hearing healthcare group, migrated its frontend to Next.js and Vercel, achieving a 10x reduction in hosting costs and over 30x faster response times. The new setup uses Sitecore as a headless CMS with a Next.js app, and leverages Vercel features such as Edge Middleware, Image Optimization, and Edge Cache. The transition has also reduced build times from hours to minutes and enabled more than 200 websites across multiple business units. ### Vercel — Design Engineering at Vercel - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-03-29T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/design-engineering-at-vercel - Record: https://forck.live/items/20997-design-engineering-at-vercel - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel describes the Design Engineer role as blending aesthetic sensibility with technical skills to autonomously design, build, and ship solutions. The team works across branding, marketing, product development, and the internal design system, collaborating closely with designers and product teams. Design Engineers at Vercel prioritize quality over quantity and iterate continuously. ### OpenAI — Navigating the challenges and opportunities of synthetic voices - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-03-29 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/navigating-the-challenges-and-opportunities-of-synthetic-voices - Record: https://forck.live/items/792-navigating-the-challenges-and-opportunities-of-synthetic-voices - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI is sharing lessons from a small-scale preview of Voice Engine, a model for creating custom voices. ### Alibaba — Qwen1.5-MoE: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters - Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com) - Announced: 2024-03-28T03:31:44+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-moe/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/2318-qwen1-5-moe-matching-7b-model-performance-with-1-3-activated-parameters - Subject: Qwen Alibaba introduces Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B, a mixture-of-experts model with 2.7 billion activated parameters that matches the performance of 7B models like Mistral 7B and Qwen1. ### xAI — Announcing Grok-1.5 - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2024-03-28 - Category: model-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-1.5 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4356-announcing-grok-1-5 - Subject: Grok xAI announces Grok-1.5, a new model with improved reasoning capabilities, a 128,000 token context window, and strong performance on math and coding benchmarks. It will be available soon on the 𝕏 platform. ### OpenAI — Making education data accessible - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-03-28 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/zelma - Record: https://forck.live/items/793-making-education-data-accessible - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Zelma uses GPT-4 to make education data accessible. ### Replit — Introducing Scheduled Deployments - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2024-03-26T16:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/scheduled-deployments - Record: https://forck.live/items/17988-introducing-scheduled-deployments - Subject: Replit Agent Replit launched Scheduled Deployments, allowing users to schedule applications to run at predetermined intervals using natural language to generate cron expressions. Pricing includes a per-second machine cost ($0.000028/sec), a monthly scheduler fee ($0.10 per deployment), and outbound data transfer ($0.10/GiB). The service currently offers one machine configuration (1vCPU / 2 GiB RAM), an 11-hour timeout, no concurrency limit, and a minimum interval of 1 minute. ### Supabase — Implementing semantic image search with Amazon Titan and Supabase Vector - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-03-26 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/semantic-image-search-amazon-bedrock - Record: https://forck.live/items/21443-implementing-semantic-image-search-with-amazon-titan-and-supabase-vector - Subject: Supabase Supabase published a guide demonstrating how to implement semantic image search using the Amazon Titan multimodal model via Amazon Bedrock and Supabase Vector in Python. The post walks through creating embeddings for images, storing them in a Postgres database with pgvector, and querying them with text or image inputs. ### Hugging Face — Pollen-Vision: Unified interface for Zero-Shot vision models in robotics - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-03-25 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/pollen-vision - Record: https://forck.live/items/1918-pollen-vision-unified-interface-for-zero-shot-vision-models-in-robotics - Subject: Platform Pollen Robotics announces the initial open-source release of Pollen-Vision, a library that provides a unified interface for zero-shot vision models (OWL-VIT, Mobile Sam, RAM) for robotics, enabling 3D object detection and grasping of unknown objects without training. ### OpenAI — Sora first impressions - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-03-25 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/sora-first-impressions - Record: https://forck.live/items/794-sora-first-impressions - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI has been collaborating with artists to explore how Sora can support their creative work, following the product's introduction last month.