# forck.live — 8–14 April 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-W15, 8–14 April 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-W15 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### OpenAI — Introducing OpenAI Japan - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-04-14 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-japan - Record: https://forck.live/items/786-introducing-openai-japan - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI is opening its first office in Asia and releasing a GPT-4 custom model optimized for the Japanese language. ### Vercel — Releasing safe and cost-efficient blue-green deployments - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-04-12T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/releasing-safe-and-cost-efficient-blue-green-deployments - Record: https://forck.live/items/20992-releasing-safe-and-cost-efficient-blue-green-deployments - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Blue-green deployments are a great way to mitigate the risks associated with rolling out new software versions. ### Supabase — Supabase Open Source Hackathon 2024 - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-04-12 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-oss-hackathon - Record: https://forck.live/items/21440-supabase-open-source-hackathon-2024 - Subject: Supabase Supabase announced a 10-day open source hackathon starting April 12, 2024, with categories including best overall project, best use of AI, most fun, most technically impressive, and most visually pleasing. Prizes include Apple AirPods and limited edition swag. Submissions must be open source and use Supabase. ### xAI — Grok-1.5 Vision Preview - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2024-04-12 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-1.5v - Record: https://forck.live/items/4355-grok-1-5-vision-preview - Subject: Grok xAI announces Grok-1.5V, its first multimodal model, and introduces the RealWorldQA benchmark. ### Supabase — Postgres Roles and Privileges - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-04-11 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-roles-and-privileges - Record: https://forck.live/items/21441-postgres-roles-and-privileges - Subject: Supabase Supabase published a tutorial explaining how Postgres roles, privileges, and permissions work, covering basic concepts like database objects, privileges, roles, and ownership, and demonstrating how to create users, grant permissions, and debug access errors using the psql command line tool. ### Hugging Face — Vision Language Models Explained - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-04-11 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/vlms - Record: https://forck.live/items/1910-vision-language-models-explained - Subject: Platform Vision language models, including their architecture, a table of open-source models, evaluation benchmarks, and guidance on fine-tuning. ### Vercel — Creating a robust platform for documentation with Next.js and Vercel - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-04-10T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/creating-a-robust-platform-for-documentation-with-next-js-and-vercel - Record: https://forck.live/items/20993-creating-a-robust-platform-for-documentation-with-next-js-and-vercel - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Teleport migrated its documentation and website from MkDocs and Hugo to Next.js hosted on Vercel, achieving a 60% decrease in build times and enabling 3x more concurrent builds. The new platform supports versioned documentation from Markdown files, dynamic features like shared user variables and Mermaid.js charts, and integrates with GitHub for automated deployments and preview deployments. ### Hugging Face — Making thousands of open LLMs bloom in the Vertex AI Model Garden - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-04-10 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/google-cloud-model-garden - Record: https://forck.live/items/1911-making-thousands-of-open-llms-bloom-in-the-vertex-ai-model-garden - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces a new integration called Deploy on Google Cloud, allowing users to deploy thousands of open foundation models from the Hugging Face Hub to Google Cloud's Vertex AI or GKE with a simple click-through experience. ### Vercel — Composable AI for ecommerce: Hands-on with Vercel’s AI SDK - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-04-09T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/composable-ai-for-ecommerce-hands-on-with-vercels-ai-sdk - Record: https://forck.live/items/20994-composable-ai-for-ecommerce-hands-on-with-vercel-s-ai-sdk - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Build custom AI-powered features at lightning speed. Imagine you have a great idea for an AI-powered feature that will transform your ecommerce storefront—but your existing platform stands in the way of innovating and shipping. ### LG AI Research — The 4th LG Aimers, to Inspire Young Adults to Become AI Experts - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-04-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=422 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11029-the-4th-lg-aimers-to-inspire-young-adults-to-become-ai-experts - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research concluded the fourth LG Aimers program, a three-month AI training and hackathon for young adults, with over 3,000 applicants and 99 finalists. The offline hackathon finals, held April 6-7, 2024, awarded first place to team 'Andrew Ng' for an AI forecasting model. The program has trained 9,193 people across four batches and received the Minister of Employment and Labor Award. ### LG AI Research — The 4th LG Aimers, to Inspire Young Adults to Become AI Experts - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-04-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=422 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4858-the-4th-lg-aimers-to-inspire-young-adults-to-become-ai-experts - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research announces the successful conclusion of the 4th LG Aimers program, an AI expert training initiative for young adults. The program attracted over 3,000 applicants, with 34 teams and 99 students advancing to an offline hackathon. Winners were selected based on algorithm and presentation evaluations. ### Hugging Face — CodeGemma - an official Google release for code LLMs - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-04-09 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/codegemma - Record: https://forck.live/items/1912-codegemma-an-official-google-release-for-code-llms - Subject: Platform Google released CodeGemma, a family of open-access code-specialist LLMs based on Gemma, trained on an additional 500 billion tokens, with three variants: 2B base, 7B base, and 7B instruct, all with 8K context size, integrated into the Hugging Face ecosystem. ### Vercel — How Ruggable saw 300% more organic clicks by optimizing their frontend architecture - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-04-08T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/how-ruggable-saw-more-organic-clicks-by-optimizing-their-frontend - Record: https://forck.live/items/20995-how-ruggable-saw-300-more-organic-clicks-by-optimizing-their-frontend - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Ruggable, an ecommerce brand on Shopify, adopted a headless frontend architecture using Next.js on Vercel and Contentful for content management. The migration resulted in a 75% improvement in SEO rankings, 40% faster site speed, and a 300% increase in unbranded search clicks. The new setup also enabled zero downtime during Black Friday and allowed the marketing team to make site changes in hours instead of weeks. ### Factory AI — Factory Achieves SOC 2 Certification - Company: Factory AI (factory.com) - Announced: 2024-04-08 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://factory.com/news/soc-ii-certification - Record: https://forck.live/items/17873-factory-achieves-soc-2-certification - Subject: Droid Factory announced it has achieved SOC 2 Type I certification, demonstrating compliance with AICPA trust service principles for managing customer data. The certification underscores the company's commitment to security, privacy, and reliability in its autonomous software engineering solutions. ### Hugging Face — Public Policy at Hugging Face - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-04-08 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/policy-blog - Record: https://forck.live/items/1913-public-policy-at-hugging-face - Subject: Platform Hugging Face's approach to artificial intelligence policy, detailing its cross-disciplinary team and listing numerous policy submissions to U.S., EU, and UK government bodies between 2022 and 2025.