# forck.live — 9–15 December 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-W50, 9–15 December 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-W50 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### OpenAI — Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-12-13 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit - Record: https://forck.live/items/658-elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI responds to Elon Musk's latest legal filing, noting that in 2017 Musk himself wanted and created a for-profit structure for OpenAI. ### Vercel — Technical audits: Optimizing cost, performance, and productivity - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-12-12T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/technical-audits - Record: https://forck.live/items/20913-technical-audits-optimizing-cost-performance-and-productivity - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel's article describes three types of technical audits—Code Review, Web Performance, and Usage—that help identify performance bottlenecks, reduce costs, and improve developer productivity. It includes case studies showing specific improvements such as a 70% reduction in TTFB, 45% faster Time to Interactive, and 60% fewer serverless function executions. ### Runway — Runway launches Student Ambassador Program - Company: Runway (runway.com) - Announced: 2024-12-12T10:10:10.110000+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://runway.com/news/runway-launches-student-ambassador-program - Record: https://forck.live/items/7917-runway-launches-student-ambassador-program - Subject: Gen / Aleph Runway launched a Student Ambassador Program for students interested in the intersection of art and technology. The program provides 100k complimentary credits, a complimentary Pro plan, networking opportunities, and access to the Runway team. It aims to reduce friction in accessing AI video tools for students and connect them with peers and industry professionals. ### Cartesia — Announcing our seed round - Company: Cartesia (cartesia.ai) - Announced: 2024-12-12 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/seed - Record: https://forck.live/items/8026-announcing-our-seed-round - Subject: Sonic / Ink Cartesia announced a $27M seed round led by Index Ventures with participation from multiple investors. ### xAI — Bringing Grok to Everyone - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2024-12-12 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-1212 - Record: https://forck.live/items/3490-bringing-grok-to-everyone - Subject: Grok Grok is updated to be faster, sharper, and with improved multilingual support, and is now available to all users on the X platform. ### Lovable — Streamlined Supabase Keys Management, Flexible Plans, and New Integrations - Company: Lovable (lovable.dev) - Announced: 2024-12-11T14:01:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/2025-01-13-streamlined-supabase-keys-management-flexible-plans-and-new-integrations - Record: https://forck.live/items/12201-streamlined-supabase-keys-management-flexible-plans-and-new-integrations - Subject: Lovable / AI app builder Lovable added streamlined Supabase API keys management directly in chat, introduced customisable messaging limits on its Scale plan with volume discounts, made messages from "Ask the AI to fix" requests exempt from usage limits, and expanded integrations to include Stripe, Three.js, p5.js, Resend, and Fabric.js. ### Vercel — Extra Space Storage's build times became 17x faster with Vercel - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-12-11T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/extra-space-storages-build-times-became-17x-faster-with-vercel - Record: https://forck.live/items/20914-extra-space-storage-s-build-times-became-17x-faster-with-vercel - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Extra Space Storage migrated its flagship site to Vercel, achieving a 95% decrease in build times and improved site reliability. The company uses Next.js features like Incremental Static Regeneration and Edge Middleware to handle 250,000 daily page views and $1.7 million in daily digital revenue. ### Replit — Announcing the New Replit Assistant - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2024-12-11T00:17:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/new-ai-assistant-announcement - Record: https://forck.live/items/17985-announcing-the-new-replit-assistant - Subject: Replit Agent Replit launched the new Replit Assistant and took Replit Agent out of early access, introducing unlimited usage with monthly credits and pay-as-you-go billing based on checkpoints. The Agent now supports React for web applications and can build apps from screenshots or URLs. The Assistant enables direct code edits through natural language requests. ### Supabase — Running Durable Workflows in Postgres using DBOS - Company: Supabase (supabase.com) - Announced: 2024-12-10T07:00:01+00:00 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://supabase.com/blog/durable-workflows-in-postgres-dbos - Record: https://forck.live/items/21379-running-durable-workflows-in-postgres-using-dbos - Subject: Supabase Supabase announced an integration with DBOS, a durable workflow engine built on Postgres. DBOS stores workflow state in Postgres, enabling features like exactly-once execution and idempotency. The integration allows developers to use their Supabase Postgres database as a workflow engine. ### Hugging Face — LeMaterial: an open source initiative to accelerate materials discovery and research - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-12-10 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/lematerial - Record: https://forck.live/items/1783-lematerial-an-open-source-initiative-to-accelerate-materials-discovery-and - Subject: Platform Hugging Face and Entalpic announce LeMaterial, an open-source initiative to accelerate materials discovery, and release the LeMat-Bulk dataset with 6.7M entries. ### Sakana AI — An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory - Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai) - Announced: 2024-12-09T15:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://sakana.ai/namm - Record: https://forck.live/items/4726-an-evolved-universal-transformer-memory - Subject: Sakana models Sakana AI introduces Neural Attention Memory Models (NAMMs), a learned memory system for transformers that improves performance and efficiency by selectively retaining or forgetting tokens, and is universally transferable across different foundation models and modalities without retraining. The paper also releases a new Japanese long-context benchmark called ChouBun. ### Vercel — Vercel and AWS partner on AI tools and experiences - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-12-09T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-and-aws-partner-on-ai-tools-and-experiences - Record: https://forck.live/items/20915-vercel-and-aws-partner-on-ai-tools-and-experiences - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel and AWS have entered a three-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) focused on AI-enabled developer tooling and experiences. Vercel's v0 is now available on AWS Marketplace, and Vercel has obtained AWS Retail and Consumer Goods Competencies. ### OpenAI — Sora is here - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-12-09T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here - Record: https://forck.live/items/659-sora-is-here - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces that its video generation model Sora is now available at sora.com, with capabilities to generate videos up to 1080p resolution, up to 20 seconds long, in widescreen, vertical or square aspect ratios, and allows users to extend, remix, blend, or generate new content from text. ### LG AI Research — Open-sourcing Three EXAONE 3.5 Models : Frontier-level Model, Top-tier Performance in Instruction Following and Long Context Capabilities - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-12-09 - Category: open-weight-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=507 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4816-open-sourcing-three-exaone-3-5-models-frontier-level-model-top-tier - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research open-sources three EXAONE 3.5 models (2.4B, 7.8B, 32B) with improved long context (32K tokens) and instruction following capabilities. ### xAI — Grok Image Generation Release - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2024-12-09 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-image-generation-release - Record: https://forck.live/items/3491-grok-image-generation-release - Subject: Grok xAI announces an update to Grok, adding a new autoregressive image generation model called Aurora, available on the X platform. ### Hugging Face — Open Preference Dataset for Text-to-Image Generation by the 🤗 Community - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-12-09 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/image-preferences - Record: https://forck.live/items/1785-open-preference-dataset-for-text-to-image-generation-by-the-community - Subject: Platform The Data is Better Together community releases an Apache 2.0 licensed preference dataset for text-to-image generation, containing preference pairs across categories and complexities, generated using Flux and Stable Diffusion models. ### Hugging Face — Hugging Face models in Amazon Bedrock - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-12-09 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/bedrock-marketplace - Record: https://forck.live/items/1784-hugging-face-models-in-amazon-bedrock - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces that 83 open models from their platform are now available on Amazon Bedrock via the new Bedrock Marketplace, allowing AWS customers to deploy and use these models with Amazon Bedrock APIs. The post provides a step-by-step guide to deploying Google Gemma 2 27B Instruct as an example. ### OpenAI — Put AI to work for your product team - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-12-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/put-ai-to-work-for-your-product-team - Record: https://forck.live/items/664-put-ai-to-work-for-your-product-team - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API The source text is a title stating "Put AI to work for your product team". No further content is provided. ### OpenAI — Sora System Card - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-12-09 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/sora-system-card - Record: https://forck.live/items/663-sora-system-card - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announced Sora, a video generation model that takes text, image, and video inputs to generate new videos. ### OpenAI — Vallée Duhamel & Sora - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-12-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/sora-vallee-duhamel - Record: https://forck.live/items/662-vall-e-duhamel-sora - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API The filmmaker duo Vallée Duhamel explains how Sora helps build new worlds. ### OpenAI — Animator Lyndon Barrois creates new worlds with Sora - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-12-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/sora-lyndon-barrois - Record: https://forck.live/items/661-animator-lyndon-barrois-creates-new-worlds-with-sora - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Filmmaker Lyndon Barrois describes how to use Sora as a storytelling tool. ### OpenAI — Minne Atairu & Sora - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-12-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/sora-minne-atairu - Record: https://forck.live/items/660-minne-atairu-sora - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Interdisciplinary artist Minne Atairu discusses how Sora helps realize her vision.