# forck.live — 6–12 May 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-W19, 6–12 May 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-W19
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Alibaba — Notes on Qwen-Max-0428

- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-11T10:10:00+00:00
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-max-0428/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2314-notes-on-qwen-max-0428
- Subject: Qwen

Alibaba released Qwen-Max-0428, a larger instruction-tuned model for chat service, which outperforms their previous largest model Qwen1.5-110B-Chat on MT-Bench and ranks in the top-10 of Chatbot Arena.

### Runway — Exploring the Future of Filmmaking: Runway’s programming partnership with Tribeca Festival 2024

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-10T10:10:10.110000+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://runway.com/news/runway-partners-with-tribeca-festival
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7927-exploring-the-future-of-filmmaking-runway-s-programming-partnership-with
- Subject: Gen / Aleph

Runway announced a programming partnership with the Tribeca Festival to showcase short films made with AI tools, including a free public screening and Q&A session.

### Vercel — 7 AI features you can add to your app today

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-09T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/7-ai-features-you-can-add-to-your-app-today
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20983-7-ai-features-you-can-add-to-your-app-today
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel's guide explains how businesses can integrate AI features like semantic search, natural chatbots, nuanced personalization, and instant localization using LLMs from providers such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, with Vercel's infrastructure supporting managed scaling, streaming, and caching.

### Vercel — How Vercel helped Desenio future-proof their business

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-09T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/how-vercel-helped-desenio-future-proof-their-business
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20982-how-vercel-helped-desenio-future-proof-their-business
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel's case study documents how Desenio, after merging with The Poster Store, used Vercel's Preview Deployments, Incremental Static Regeneration, and Next.js Redirects to unify workflows, reduce deployment times, and achieve a 37% lower bounce rate, 48% longer sessions, and a 34% improvement in site conversions.

### Supabase — The open source Kahoot alternative

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-09
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/meetup-kahoot-alternative
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21425-the-open-source-kahoot-alternative
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase built and open-sourced a simplified Kahoot-like quiz game for its global meetups, using its own auth, database, and realtime features. The app allows hosts to start quiz games and players to join via QR code and answer questions on their phones. The code is available on GitHub for community contributions.

### Hugging Face — Building Cost-Efficient Enterprise RAG applications with Intel Gaudi 2 and Intel Xeon

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-05-09
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/cost-efficient-rag-applications-with-intel
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1895-building-cost-efficient-enterprise-rag-applications-with-intel-gaudi-2-and
- Subject: Platform

To build cost-efficient enterprise RAG applications using Intel Gaudi 2 and Intel Xeon, with code examples using LangChain and Hugging Face models.

### Hugging Face — Subscribe to Enterprise Hub with your AWS Account

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-05-09
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/enterprise-hub-aws-marketplace
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1894-subscribe-to-enterprise-hub-with-your-aws-account
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces that organizations can now subscribe to Enterprise Hub using their AWS account via the AWS Marketplace, with step-by-step instructions provided.

### Isomorphic Labs — Rational drug design with AlphaFold 3

- Company: Isomorphic Labs (isomorphiclabs.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-08
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/articles/rational-drug-design-with-alphafold-3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/19147-rational-drug-design-with-alphafold-3
- Subject: Drug Design Engine / AlphaFold

Isomorphic Labs, together with Google DeepMind, developed AlphaFold 3, an AI model that predicts the 3D structure of biomolecular complexes including multiple proteins, DNA, RNA, and small molecule ligands. The model uses a diffusion process and a neural network architecture built on a custom Transformer with triangular attention, trained on data from the Protein Data Bank. Isomorphic Labs reports using AlphaFold 3 in daily drug design work, including predicting structures for previously uncharacterized complexes and evaluating a TIM-3 immune checkpoint target.

### Isomorphic Labs — AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules

- Company: Isomorphic Labs (isomorphiclabs.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-08
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/articles/alphafold-3-predicts-the-structure-and-interactions-of-all-of-lifes-molecules
- Record: https://forck.live/items/19146-alphafold-3-predicts-the-structure-and-interactions-of-all-of-life-s-molecules
- Subject: Drug Design Engine / AlphaFold

Isomorphic Labs introduced AlphaFold 3, a model that predicts the structure and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA, and small molecules with improved accuracy. The model shows at least a 50% improvement over existing methods for protein interactions with other molecule types. As of November 2024, the model code and weights have been released for academic use.

### OpenAI — Understanding the source of what we see and hear online

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-07
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/understanding-the-source-of-what-we-see-and-hear-online
- Record: https://forck.live/items/772-understanding-the-source-of-what-we-see-and-hear-online
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI announced new technology to help researchers identify content created by its tools and joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity Steering Committee.

### OpenAI — Our approach to data and AI

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-07
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/approach-to-data-and-ai
- Record: https://forck.live/items/771-our-approach-to-data-and-ai
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI provides an overview of its approach to data and AI, mentions a new Media Manager for creators and content owners, and discusses where the company is headed.

### OpenAI — API Partnership with Stack Overflow

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-06
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/api-partnership-with-stack-overflow
- Record: https://forck.live/items/773-api-partnership-with-stack-overflow
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI and Stack Overflow announced a new API partnership to combine Stack Overflow's technical knowledge platform with OpenAI's LLM models for AI development.
