# forck.live — 2–8 September 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-W36, 2–8 September 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-W36 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Sarvam AI — Making complex information accessible with Mayura - Company: Sarvam AI (sarvam.ai) - Announced: 2024-09-06 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://www.sarvam.ai/blogs/blog-mayura/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/18405-making-complex-information-accessible-with-mayura - Subject: Sarvam / Bulbul / Saaras Sarvam AI introduced Sarvam Translate, a translation model trained on real-world formal and colloquial communication data to better handle code-mixing, regional expressions, and gender in 10 Indian languages. The model aims to address limitations of conventional translation systems that rely on formal sources like newspapers and books. ### LG AI Research — [ACL 2024] A New Approach to Chart Understanding and Reasoning - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-09-06 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=476 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4831-acl-2024-a-new-approach-to-chart-understanding-and-reasoning - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research discusses ChartInstruct, a paper presented at ACL 2024, which introduces instruction tuning for chart comprehension and reasoning, and mentions ongoing related research at LG AI Research. ### Harvey — Harvey Co-Builds Custom Model for Tax with PwC - Company: Harvey (harvey.ai) - Announced: 2024-09-05T18:47:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/harvey-co-builds-custom-model-for-tax-with-pwc - Record: https://forck.live/items/17728-harvey-co-builds-custom-model-for-tax-with-pwc - Subject: Harvey Harvey, in alliance with PwC and OpenAI, developed the Tax AI Assistant, a suite of custom models and LLM systems that assist tax professionals. The system combines curated tax datasets with Harvey's LLM expertise and is fine-tuned with feedback from PwC's tax experts. In a blind side-by-side evaluation against other AI solutions, PwC tax experts preferred the Tax AI Assistant 91% of the time. ### OpenAI — Using GPT-4 to deliver a new customer service standard - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-09-05T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/ada - Record: https://forck.live/items/717-using-gpt-4-to-deliver-a-new-customer-service-standard - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Ada uses GPT-4 to deliver a new customer service standard. ### Supabase — Building an Uber Clone with Flutter and Supabase - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-09-05 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/flutter-uber-clone - Record: https://forck.live/items/21399-building-an-uber-clone-with-flutter-and-supabase - Subject: Supabase Supabase published a tutorial on building an Uber-like application using Flutter and Supabase, focusing on real-time location tracking with PostGIS and Supabase Realtime. The guide covers project setup, database configuration, model definitions, UI implementation, location selection, driver assignment, and real-time map updates. Payments are not covered. ### Vercel — What’s new in React 19 - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-09-04T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/whats-new-in-react-19 - Record: https://forck.live/items/20952-what-s-new-in-react-19 - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Explore React 19 and how to start using it on Vercel today. React 19 is near. ### Hugging Face — Hugging Face partners with TruffleHog to Scan for Secrets - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-09-04 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/trufflesecurity-partnership - Record: https://forck.live/items/1833-hugging-face-partners-with-trufflehog-to-scan-for-secrets - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces a partnership with Truffle Security to integrate TruffleHog's secret scanning features into the Hugging Face platform, including an automated scanning pipeline and a native scanner for models, datasets, and Spaces. ### Sakana AI — Announcing Our Series A - Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai) - Announced: 2024-09-03T15:00:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://sakana.ai/series-a - Record: https://forck.live/items/4728-announcing-our-series-a - Subject: Sakana models Sakana AI announces its Series A funding round of approximately $200M led by New Enterprise Associates, Khosla Ventures, and Lux Capital, with participation from NVIDIA and others. The company also announces a collaboration with NVIDIA focusing on research, data centers in Japan, and developing Japan's AI community. ### Vercel — Transforming customer support with AI: How Vercel decreased tickets by 31% - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-09-03T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/transforming-customer-support-with-ai-how-vercel-decreased-tickets - Record: https://forck.live/items/20953-transforming-customer-support-with-ai-how-vercel-decreased-tickets-by-31 - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel integrated an AI-powered agent into its customer support workflow, resulting in a 31% reduction in human-handled tickets and a 42% reduction in first response time. The agent, built with a large language model and a multi-source knowledge base, handles a range of queries and can escalate to human support when needed. Vercel used an iterative rollout with A/B testing and internal testing before full deployment. ### LG AI Research — [ACL 2024] Emerging Trends and Key Insights in LLM Research - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-09-03 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=474 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4832-acl-2024-emerging-trends-and-key-insights-in-llm-research - Subject: EXAONE Tutorial sessions at ACL 2024, focusing on trends in LLM research, particularly automatic and human-AI interactive text generation evaluation. It discusses methods like BERTScore, reward models, and LLM-as-a-judge, and highlights LG AI Research's Prometheus 2 paper as an open-source model for evaluating other LLMs.