# forck.live — 15–21 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-W16, 15–21 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-W16
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### OpenAI — The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-19T19:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/the-instruction-hierarchy
- Record: https://forck.live/items/785-the-instruction-hierarchy-training-llms-to-prioritize-privileged-instructions
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI states that LLMs are susceptible to prompt injections, jailbreaks, and other attacks that allow adversaries to overwrite a model's original instructions.

### Hugging Face — The Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Healthcare

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-04-19
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-medicalllm
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1903-the-open-medical-llm-leaderboard-benchmarking-large-language-models-in
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces the Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard, a standardized platform for evaluating and comparing large language models on medical tasks using datasets like MedQA, MedMCQA, PubMedQA, and MMLU subsets.

### Vercel — How Global Retail Brands cut development time from months to 1 week with Vercel

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-18T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/how-global-retail-brands-cut-development-time-from-months-to-1-week
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20990-how-global-retail-brands-cut-development-time-from-months-to-1-week-with-vercel
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel's case study reports that Global Retail Brands (GRB) cut development time for new features from months to one week and reduced deployment time from one hour to under ten minutes after migrating to Vercel. GRB's site uptime improved to nearly 100%.

### Supabase — Supabase Security Advisor & Performance Advisor

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-18
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/security-performance-advisor
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21432-supabase-security-advisor-performance-advisor
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase added Security Advisor, Performance Advisor, and Index Advisor to Supabase Studio to help detect security issues, suggest database optimizations, and recommend indexes for slow queries. The advisors are powered by open-source tools index_advisor and splinter. The Index Advisor is integrated into the existing Query Performance tool.

### Supabase — Top 10 Launches from Supabase GA Week

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-18
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/ga-week-summary
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21431-top-10-launches-from-supabase-ga-week
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase announced general availability of its managed platform, along with new features including Bootstrap for rapid project setup, Branching in open beta, a Postgres Index Advisor extension, official Swift support, Security and Performance Advisors, native AI support in Edge Functions, S3-compatible Storage, anonymous sign-ins, and the acquisition of the Oriole storage extension.

### Supabase — Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-18
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/s3-compatible-storage
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21430-supabase-storage-now-supports-the-s3-protocol
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase announced S3 protocol support for its Storage service, now available in public alpha. The S3 protocol is backwards compatible with existing REST and TUS APIs and works on cloud, local development, and self-hosting. Additionally, resumable uploads have moved from beta to general availability, and multipart uploads are now supported via the S3 protocol.

### Upstage — Deploying Solar with BentoML

- Company: Upstage (upstage.ai)
- Announced: 2024-04-18
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.upstage.ai/blog/en/solar-with-bentoml
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18484-deploying-solar-with-bentoml
- Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini

Upstage published a guide on deploying its Solar 10.7B model using BentoML and vLLM. The post walks through setting up a BentoML service with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and running inference on a GPU with at least 16 GB VRAM.

### Replicate — Run Meta Llama 3 with an API

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-18
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/run-llama-3-with-an-api
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2540-run-meta-llama-3-with-an-api
- Subject: Platform

Replicate announces that Meta Llama 3 is now available to run via its API, with four variants (70B instruct, 8B instruct, 70B base, 8B base) and instructions for JavaScript, Python, cURL, and other clients.

### Hugging Face — Welcome Llama 3 - Meta's new open LLM

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-04-18
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/llama3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1904-welcome-llama-3-meta-s-new-open-llm
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces the release of Meta's Llama 3 open LLM family, including 8B and 70B parameter models (base and instruct variants) and Llama Guard 2, with integrations into the Hugging Face ecosystem.

### Mistral AI — Cheaper, Better, Faster, Stronger

- Company: Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
- Announced: 2024-04-17T14:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-8x22b/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7374-cheaper-better-faster-stronger
- Subject: Mistral / Le Chat

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x22B, an open sparse mixture-of-experts model with 39B active parameters out of 141B, under the Apache 2.0 license. It features a 64K token context window, multilingual support (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish), and strong mathematics and coding capabilities. The instructed version achieves 90.8% on GSM8K maj@8 and 44.6% on Math maj@4.

### Vercel — Building an interactive 3D event badge with React Three Fiber

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-17T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/building-an-interactive-3d-event-badge-with-react-three-fiber
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20991-building-an-interactive-3d-event-badge-with-react-three-fiber
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

In this post, we’ll look at how we made the dropping lanyard for the Vercel Ship 2024 site , diving into the inspiration, tech stack, and code behind the finished product.

### Supabase — Supabase Auth now supports Anonymous Sign-ins

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-17
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/anonymous-sign-ins
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21433-supabase-auth-now-supports-anonymous-sign-ins
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase Auth now supports anonymous sign-ins, allowing applications to create temporary authenticated users without requiring signup credentials. Developers can enable this feature from the dashboard and create anonymous users via the JavaScript, Flutter, or Swift SDKs. Anonymous users can later be converted to permanent users by linking an email, phone, or OAuth identity, preserving their user ID and associated data.

### LG AI Research — [ICLR 2024] Advancements in Time Series Forecasting

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2024-04-17
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=424
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4857-iclr-2024-advancements-in-time-series-forecasting
- Subject: EXAONE

Three time series forecasting models (FITS, ModernTCN, TimeMixer) presented at ICLR 2024, describing their methodologies and performance.

### Supabase — AI Inference now available in Supabase Edge Functions

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-16
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/ai-inference-now-available-in-supabase-edge-functions
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21434-ai-inference-now-available-in-supabase-edge-functions
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase added a built-in API to Edge Functions for running AI inference, including embedding generation via ONNX runtime and experimental LLM support via Ollama. Embedding generation is available to all Edge Functions users at no extra cost beyond CPU usage, while LLM access is invite-only due to GPU demand.

### Upstage — Upstage Raises $72 Million in Series B Funding

- Company: Upstage (upstage.ai)
- Announced: 2024-04-16
- Category: funding-company-news
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.upstage.ai/news/upstage-series-b-funding
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18442-upstage-raises-72-million-in-series-b-funding
- Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini

Upstage announced it raised $72 million in Series B funding, bringing total funding to over $100 million since its founding in October 2020. The round was led by SK Networks, KT, Korea Development Bank, and others. The company plans to use the financing to accelerate development of purpose-trained LLMs for global enterprises and expand with a new office in San Jose, California.

### Hugging Face — Ryght’s Journey to Empower Healthcare and Life Sciences with Expert Support from Hugging Face

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-04-16
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ryght-case-study
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1908-ryght-s-journey-to-empower-healthcare-and-life-sciences-with-expert-support
- Subject: Platform

Ryght launched Ryght Preview, a generative AI platform for healthcare and life sciences, now publicly available, with support from Hugging Face's Expert Support Program.

### Hugging Face — Running Privacy-Preserving Inferences on Hugging Face Endpoints

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-04-16
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/fhe-endpoints
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1907-running-privacy-preserving-inferences-on-hugging-face-endpoints
- Subject: Platform

Zama announces that pre-compiled FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption) models using Concrete ML are now available for deployment on Hugging Face Endpoints, enabling privacy-preserving inferences on encrypted data.

### Hugging Face — Introducing the LiveCodeBench Leaderboard - Holistic and Contamination-Free Evaluation of Code LLMs

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-04-16
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-livecodebench
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1906-introducing-the-livecodebench-leaderboard-holistic-and-contamination-free
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face introduces the LiveCodeBench leaderboard, a new benchmark for evaluating code LLMs that collects coding problems over time from various coding contest platforms to prevent contamination, and includes four scenarios: code generation, self-repair, code execution, and test output prediction.

### Hugging Face — AI Apps in a Flash with Gradio's Reload Mode

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-04-16
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio-reload
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1905-ai-apps-in-a-flash-with-gradio-s-reload-mode
- Subject: Platform

Gradio's reload mode, which allows developers to see UI changes instantly without restarting the server, and demonstrates building a document analyzer app using the Hugging Face Inference API.

### Supabase — Supabase Swift

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-15
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-swift
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21439-supabase-swift
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase announced official support for its Swift libraries, enabling integration with Apple platforms including iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. The release includes new features such as WhatsApp OTP, Captcha support, SSO, simplified Storage uploads, anonymous sign-ins, and simplified OAuth. Developers receive direct assistance from the Supabase team, continuously updated libraries, and community engagement.

### Supabase — Supabase Bootstrap: the fastest way to launch a new project

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-15
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-bootstrap
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21438-supabase-bootstrap-the-fastest-way-to-launch-a-new-project
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase introduced a new CLI command, `supabase bootstrap`, that lets users quickly create a new hosted Supabase project from existing starter templates. The command downloads template files locally, sets up a remote database, and exports project credentials for development. It supports templates for frameworks like Next.js, Expo React Native, Flutter, and Swift iOS, with plans to accept community contributions.

### Supabase — Supabase on the AWS Marketplace

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-15
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-aws-marketplace
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21437-supabase-on-the-aws-marketplace
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase is now available for purchase through the AWS Marketplace, simplifying procurement for enterprise customers. At launch, Team and Enterprise plans are available for customers with annual pre-commitment contracts, and purchases count towards AWS spend commitments.

### Supabase — Oriole joins Supabase

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-15
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-acquires-oriole
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21436-oriole-joins-supabase
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase has acquired the Oriole team, which built a drop-in table storage extension for Postgres designed to improve performance on modern hardware. The team will work on a faster storage engine, pluggable storage, and decoupled storage and compute for Postgres. OrioleDB currently requires patches to Postgres, and the company aims to upstream them over several major versions.

### Supabase — Branching now Publicly Available

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-04-15
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/branching-publicly-available
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21435-branching-now-publicly-available
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase made Branching publicly available in open beta for projects on the Pro Plan or above. The feature integrates Git with database development, spawning full Supabase preview environments on each pull request. The open beta adds Edge Function deployment, monorepo support, and persistent branches.

### Hugging Face — Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-04-15
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/idefics2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1909-introducing-idefics2-a-powerful-8b-vision-language-model-for-the-community
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face releases Idefics2, an 8B parameter vision-language model with Apache 2.0 license, improved OCR, and competitive performance on multimodal benchmarks.