# forck.live — 28 October – 3 November 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-W44, 28 October – 3 November 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-W44 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Vercel — Break the news, not the site: Leading news organizations upgrade their infrastructure ahead of the election - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-10-31T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/break-the-news-not-the-site - Record: https://forck.live/items/20928-break-the-news-not-the-site-leading-news-organizations-upgrade-their - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel and Code and Theory describe how two news organizations, RealClearPolling and the Minnesota Star Tribune, migrated from legacy PHP and AWS infrastructure to Next.js on Vercel. RealClearPolling completed its migration in three months, while the Minnesota Star Tribune saw a 30% improvement in Core Web Vitals and handled a major traffic spike without performance issues. ### OpenAI — Introducing ChatGPT search - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-10-31T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search - Record: https://forck.live/items/674-introducing-chatgpt-search - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI introduces a search feature in ChatGPT that provides fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources. ### OpenAI — Promega’s top-down adoption of ChatGPT accelerates manufacturing, sales, and marketing - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-10-31T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/promega - Record: https://forck.live/items/675-promega-s-top-down-adoption-of-chatgpt-accelerates-manufacturing-sales-and - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI published a case study about Promega adopting ChatGPT across its operations to improve manufacturing, sales, and marketing. ### Suno — Introducing Personas - Company: Suno (suno.com) - Announced: 2024-10-31 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://suno.com/blog/personas - Record: https://forck.live/items/10339-introducing-personas - Subject: Music / Studio Suno introduced Personas, a feature that captures the vocals, style, and vibe of a track as a reusable creative asset. The feature is available in early-access beta to Pro and Premier subscribers, who receive 200 free Persona-based songs before standard credit costs apply. ### Vercel — A deep dive into Vercel’s build infrastructure - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-10-30T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/a-deep-dive-into-hive-vercels-builds-infrastructure - Record: https://forck.live/items/20929-a-deep-dive-into-vercel-s-build-infrastructure - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel introduced a new low-level untrusted and ephemeral compute platform codenamed Hive, which has powered its builds since November 2023. The platform provides a 30% improvement in build performance and reduced provisioning times for Secure Compute customers from 90 seconds to 5 seconds. Hive uses KVM and Firecracker microVMs to securely run customer builds on multi-tenant machines. ### OpenAI — Introducing SimpleQA - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-10-30T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-simpleqa - Record: https://forck.live/items/676-introducing-simpleqa - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI introduces SimpleQA, a factuality benchmark for evaluating language models on short fact-seeking questions. ### Supabase — ClickHouse Partnership, improved Postgres Replication, and Disk Management - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-10-30 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-clickhouse-partnership - Record: https://forck.live/items/21392-clickhouse-partnership-improved-postgres-replication-and-disk-management - Subject: Supabase Supabase and ClickHouse announced a partnership to improve the integration between Postgres and ClickHouse. They released updates including an updated ClickHouse Foreign Data Wrapper with support for parameterized views, more granular replication control via 13 configurable Postgres parameters, and improved disk management with adjustable WAL configuration. ClickHouse also released a native Supabase OAuth integration in PeerDB and IPv6 support in PeerDB Cloud. ### Cartesia — Introducing voice changer: transform audio your way - Company: Cartesia (cartesia.ai) - Announced: 2024-10-30 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/voice-changer - Record: https://forck.live/items/8028-introducing-voice-changer-transform-audio-your-way - Subject: Sonic / Ink Cartesia released Voice Changer, a new model that transforms the voice of any audio clip while preserving the original delivery and emotion. The model is available through the company's playground and API, and is built on state space model architectures. ### OpenAI — Delivering high-performance customer support - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-10-29T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/decagon - Record: https://forck.live/items/677-delivering-high-performance-customer-support - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI and Decagon collaborate to provide high-performance, fully automated customer support at scale. ### Hugging Face — Universal Assisted Generation: Faster Decoding with Any Assistant Model - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-10-29 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/universal_assisted_generation - Record: https://forck.live/items/1802-universal-assisted-generation-faster-decoding-with-any-assistant-model - Subject: Platform Hugging Face and Intel Labs introduce Universal Assisted Generation (UAG), a method that extends assisted generation (speculative decoding) to work with any pair of target and assistant models, regardless of tokenizer compatibility, enabling 1.5x-2.0x speedup for LLM inference. ### Hugging Face — Expert Support case study: Bolstering a RAG app with LLM-as-a-Judge - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-10-28 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/digital-green-llm-judge - Record: https://forck.live/items/1803-expert-support-case-study-bolstering-a-rag-app-with-llm-as-a-judge - Subject: Platform Digital Green developed Farmer.chat, a RAG-based chatbot for agricultural advice, and used LLM-as-a-Judge to evaluate its performance, as part of the GAIA project with Hugging Face Expert Support.