# forck.live — 13–19 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-W20, 13–19 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-W20 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### OpenAI — How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-05-19T23:30:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen - Record: https://forck.live/items/762-how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI describes how the five voices for ChatGPT were selected from over 400 submissions with the help of casting and directing professionals. ### OpenAI — Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-05-16T15:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/improvements-to-data-analysis-in-chatgpt - Record: https://forck.live/items/763-improvements-to-data-analysis-in-chatgpt - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT enable interaction with tables and charts and file addition from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. ### OpenAI — OpenAI and Reddit Partnership - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-05-16T13:30:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-and-reddit-partnership - Record: https://forck.live/items/764-openai-and-reddit-partnership - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces a partnership with Reddit to bring Reddit's content to ChatGPT and OpenAI's products. ### Vercel — Securing data in your Next.js app with Okta and OpenFGA - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-05-16T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/securing-data-in-your-next-js-app-with-okta-and-openfga - Record: https://forck.live/items/20981-securing-data-in-your-next-js-app-with-okta-and-openfga - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel's guide explains how to implement fine-grained authorization in Next.js applications using a Data Access Layer (DAL) with OpenFGA or Okta FGA, focusing on relationship-based access control (ReBAC) rather than role-based access control (RBAC). ### Upstage — Breaking barriers: Revolutionize your work with our next-level embedding model - Company: Upstage (upstage.ai) - Announced: 2024-05-16 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://www.upstage.ai/blog/en/solar-embedding-1-large - Record: https://forck.live/items/18483-breaking-barriers-revolutionize-your-work-with-our-next-level-embedding-model - Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini Upstage introduced Solar Embedding-1-large, a new embedding model that outperforms OpenAI's text-embedding-3-large on English, Korean, and Japanese benchmarks. It includes two specialized models (query and passage) for search and retrieval tasks. Upstage also announced that its previous embedding model will be deprecated on June 15th. ### Hugging Face — Unlocking Longer Generation with Key-Value Cache Quantization - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-05-16 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/kv-cache-quantization - Record: https://forck.live/items/1889-unlocking-longer-generation-with-key-value-cache-quantization - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces a new KV Cache Quantization feature in the Transformers library that reduces memory usage for long-context text generation by quantizing the key-value cache, enabling longer generations on consumer GPUs with minimal quality loss. ### OpenAI — Creating an AI-powered Magic Studio - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-05-16 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/canva - Record: https://forck.live/items/765-creating-an-ai-powered-magic-studio - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API No AI product or model announcement found in the source text. The text describes Canva as a visual communication platform used by over 175 million people monthly. ### Hugging Face — Introducing the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-05-14 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-arabic - Record: https://forck.live/items/1892-introducing-the-open-arabic-llm-leaderboard - Subject: Platform Hugging Face introduces the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard, a platform for evaluating and comparing Arabic LLMs using benchmarks like AlGhafa, ACVA, and AceGPT, with plans for future expansions. ### Hugging Face — Hugging Face x LangChain : A new partner package - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-05-14 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/langchain - Record: https://forck.live/items/1891-hugging-face-x-langchain-a-new-partner-package - Subject: Platform Hugging Face and LangChain jointly announce the launch of langchain_huggingface, a new Python partner package that integrates Hugging Face models into the LangChain ecosystem. The package includes classes such as HuggingFacePipeline, HuggingFaceEndpoint, ChatHuggingFace, HuggingFaceEmbeddings, and HuggingFaceEndpointEmbeddings. ### Hugging Face — PaliGemma – Google's Cutting-Edge Open Vision Language Model - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-05-14 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/paligemma - Record: https://forck.live/items/1890-paligemma-google-s-cutting-edge-open-vision-language-model - Subject: Platform Google announces PaliGemma, a new family of open vision language models combining SigLIP image encoder and Gemma text decoder. The release includes three types of checkpoints (pretrained, mix, fine-tuned) in various resolutions and precisions, available on Hugging Face Hub. ### OpenAI — Hello GPT-4o - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-05-13T10:05:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o - Record: https://forck.live/items/767-hello-gpt-4o - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o), a new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. ### OpenAI — Introducing GPT-4o and more tools to ChatGPT free users - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-05-13T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-and-more-tools-to-chatgpt-free - Record: https://forck.live/items/769-introducing-gpt-4o-and-more-tools-to-chatgpt-free-users - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces the launch of GPT-4o, its newest flagship model, and expands capabilities for free ChatGPT users. ### OpenAI — Spring Update - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-05-13T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/spring-update - Record: https://forck.live/items/768-spring-update - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI introduces GPT-4o and expands free capabilities in ChatGPT. ### Hugging Face — License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-05-13 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/agents - Record: https://forck.live/items/1893-license-to-call-introducing-transformers-agents-2-0 - Subject: Platform Hugging Face releases Transformers Agents 2.0, introducing two new agent types (CodeAgent and ReactAgent), sharing options, and a new stand-alone library smolagents. The new framework allows a Llama-3-70B-Instruct agent to outperform GPT-4 based agents on the GAIA Leaderboard.