# forck.live — 11–17 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-W46, 11–17 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-W46 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Vercel — Accelerating partner success: Vercel’s new Partner Program benefits - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-11-15T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-partner-program-updates - Record: https://forck.live/items/20924-accelerating-partner-success-vercel-s-new-partner-program-benefits - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel announced new partner benefits including a Partner Fund (formerly Market Development Fund), a Partner Learning Portal with monthly Technical Excellence sessions, and partner tiers with dedicated go-to-market support. The post also highlights customer success stories from solution partners and new integrations with technology partners such as Optimizely, Sanity, Contentful, BigCommerce, and Supabase. ### Replicate — NVIDIA L40S GPUs are here - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2024-11-15 - Category: infrastructure-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/nvidia-l40s-gpus-are-here - Record: https://forck.live/items/2508-nvidia-l40s-gpus-are-here - Subject: Platform Replicate announces the addition of NVIDIA L40S GPUs to its supported hardware types, which are approximately 40% faster than A40 GPUs. The company will phase out A40 GPUs over several weeks, migrating all models and deployments to L40S GPUs. Pricing for private models and deployments remains the same, while public models and training will incur a new rate of $3.51 per hour. Users are advised to adjust deployment minimum instances to avoid higher charges. ### OpenAI — OpenAI en France - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-11-15 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-en-france - Record: https://forck.live/items/672-openai-en-france - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI is opening its first office in continental Europe. ### Alibaba — Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens! - Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com) - Announced: 2024-11-14T16:00:03+00:00 - Category: model-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-turbo/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/2303-extending-the-context-length-to-1m-tokens - Subject: Qwen Alibaba released Qwen2.5-Turbo, extending the context length from 128k to 1M tokens. ### Cartesia — ‘Tis the Hackathon season at Cartesia - Company: Cartesia (cartesia.ai) - Announced: 2024-11-14 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/hacktober - Record: https://forck.live/items/8027-tis-the-hackathon-season-at-cartesia - Subject: Sonic / Ink Cartesia hosted a series of hackathons in October 2024, bringing together over 2,000 builders in San Francisco and awarding $20,000 in prizes for projects built on its Sonic voice model. Events included a speech-to-speech hackathon at AGI House SF, a two-day open-source hackathon with Daily, and participation in UC Berkeley's Cal Hacks 11.0. Winning projects included Form Wizard Pro, Stella, and SpeakEasy, among others. ### Harvey — BigLaw Bench – Retrieval - Company: Harvey (harvey.ai) - Announced: 2024-11-13T18:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/biglaw-bench-retrieval - Record: https://forck.live/items/17720-biglaw-bench-retrieval - Subject: Harvey Harvey announced BigLaw Bench – Retrieval, a benchmark for legal document retrieval. Its proprietary retrieval system outperforms embedding and reranking methods from OpenAI, Voyage, and Cohere, identifying up to 30% more relevant content across contracts, discovery emails, and research databases. The system uses metadata, recency features, and LLM-based reasoning to improve retrieval in legal domains. ### Replit — Zero to MVP - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2024-11-13T17:22:13+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/zerotomvp - Record: https://forck.live/items/17989-zero-to-mvp - Subject: Replit Agent A UC Berkeley student without coding experience describes using Replit Agent to build a co-founder matching platform MVP. The post highlights how Replit enables non-technical users to turn ideas into functional apps without writing code. ### Vercel — Life of a Vercel request: What happens when a user presses enter - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-11-13T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-vercel-request-what-happens-when-a-user-presses-enter - Record: https://forck.live/items/20925-life-of-a-vercel-request-what-happens-when-a-user-presses-enter - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel published a technical guide explaining the lifecycle of a web request on its platform, covering stages from anycast routing and firewall protection to caching and response delivery. The post details how Vercel's infrastructure handles security, routing, and performance optimization for applications deployed on its network. ### Supabase — Executing Dynamic JavaScript Code on Supabase with Edge Functions - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-11-13 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-dynamic-functions - Record: https://forck.live/items/21391-executing-dynamic-javascript-code-on-supabase-with-edge-functions - Subject: Supabase Supabase published a guide explaining how to use dynamic JavaScript code execution in Edge Functions, enabling developers to modify and run code without redeploying functions. The post covers prerequisites, helper SQL functions, setting up an edge function with Deno, and deploying it via the Supabase CLI. ### Suno — Welcome Jack - Company: Suno (suno.com) - Announced: 2024-11-13 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://suno.com/blog/welcome-jack - Record: https://forck.live/items/10338-welcome-jack - Subject: Music / Studio Suno announced that Jack Brody is joining the company as Chief Product Officer. Brody previously spent a decade at Snap, most recently as Head of Product, and will oversee product and design at Suno. ### OpenAI — Data-driven beauty and creativity with ChatGPT - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-11-13 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/estee-lauder - Record: https://forck.live/items/673-data-driven-beauty-and-creativity-with-chatgpt - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI highlights how The Estée Lauder Companies uses ChatGPT to gain data-driven insights for beauty and creativity. ### LG AI Research — [AI Ethics Seminar EP.2] Research aimed at properly understanding the risks of AI - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-11-12 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=495 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4821-ai-ethics-seminar-ep-2-research-aimed-at-properly-understanding-the-risks-of-ai - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research's AI Ethics Seminar discussed research on understanding AI risks, including the AI Incident Database, OECD AI Incidents Monitor, and MIT's AI Risk Repository which categorizes 777 AI risks into causal and domain taxonomies. ### Hugging Face — Share your open ML datasets on Hugging Face Hub! - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-11-12 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/researcher-dataset-sharing - Record: https://forck.live/items/1799-share-your-open-ml-datasets-on-hugging-face-hub - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announced enhanced capabilities for the Hub, allowing users to host and share large-scale open ML datasets with features like generous limits, a Dataset Viewer with full-text search and sorting, third-party library support (Pandas, Polars, DuckDB, etc.), an interactive SQL console, and robust security measures. ### Alibaba — Qwen2.5-Coder Series: Powerful, Diverse, Practical. - Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com) - Announced: 2024-11-11T16:00:02+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-coder-family/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/2304-qwen2-5-coder-series-powerful-diverse-practical - Subject: Qwen Alibaba open-sources the Qwen2.5-Coder series, with the 32B Instruct model achieving SOTA among open-source code models and matching GPT-4o's coding capabilities, while also possessing strong general and mathematical skills. ### Lovable — Targeted Edits, Supabase Integration Improvements, and Pricing Updates - Company: Lovable (lovable.dev) - Announced: 2024-11-11T11:34:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/2025-01-13-targeted-edits-supabase-integration-improvements-and-pricing-updates - Record: https://forck.live/items/12204-targeted-edits-supabase-integration-improvements-and-pricing-updates - Subject: Lovable / AI app builder Lovable introduced a Select feature for visually targeting UI elements to edit, revamped its Supabase integration for easier full-stack development, reduced backend error rates by 90%, and updated subscription plans with new tiers (Free, Starter, Launch, Scale) that include daily or monthly edit limits.