# forck.live — 23–29 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-W52, 23–29 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-W52 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### OpenAI — Why OpenAI’s structure must evolve to advance our mission - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2024-12-27 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/why-our-structure-must-evolve-to-advance-our-mission - Record: https://forck.live/items/655-why-openai-s-structure-must-evolve-to-advance-our-mission - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI states that a stronger non-profit is supported by the for-profit's success. ### Vercel — Building the Black Friday-Cyber Monday live dashboard - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2024-12-24T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/building-the-black-friday-cyber-monday-live-dashboard - Record: https://forck.live/items/20910-building-the-black-friday-cyber-monday-live-dashboard - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel published a technical walkthrough of the Black Friday-Cyber Monday live dashboard it built, covering backend optimizations such as rolling-window queries with Upstash KV for cost efficiency and Incremental Static Regeneration for caching, as well as frontend techniques using requestAnimationFrame and rate-of-change calculations to create smooth real-time counter animations. ### Lovable — Lovable Christmas Hackhaton: Top 10 Projects - Company: Lovable (lovable.dev) - Announced: 2024-12-24T00:02:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/2025-01-15-lovable-christmas-hackhaton-top-10-projects - Record: https://forck.live/items/12200-lovable-christmas-hackhaton-top-10-projects - Subject: Lovable / AI app builder Lovable.dev hosted a Christmas Hackathon that received approximately 200 submissions. The top 10 projects were selected based on originality, technical execution, and potential impact, with the first-place project being '3D shaper' by @KHvostikk. ### Hugging Face — Visualize and understand GPU memory in PyTorch - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-12-24 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/train_memory - Record: https://forck.live/items/1775-visualize-and-understand-gpu-memory-in-pytorch - Subject: Platform This is a tutorial on how to visualize and understand GPU memory usage in PyTorch during training, including how to estimate memory requirements and optimize usage. It provides code examples and explains memory profile graphs. ### Sakana AI — Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models - Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai) - Announced: 2024-12-23T15:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://sakana.ai/asal - Record: https://forck.live/items/4725-automating-the-search-for-artificial-life-with-foundation-models - Subject: Sakana models Sakana AI, in collaboration with MIT, OpenAI, The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, and Ken Stanley, announced a research paper titled 'Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models', which proposes a new algorithm called Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL) that uses vision-language foundation models to automatically discover artificial life simulations. ### LG AI Research — [AI Ethics Seminar EP.5] AI Ethics from a UI/UX Designer's Perspective - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2024-12-23 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=512 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4814-ai-ethics-seminar-ep-5-ai-ethics-from-a-ui-ux-designer-s-perspective - Subject: EXAONE Ethical dilemmas in UI/UX design of AI services, such as deceptive patterns, and presents ethical UI/UX design principles applied to LG AI Research's ChatEXAONE. ### xAI — xAI raises $6B Series C - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2024-12-23 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://x.ai/news/series-c - Record: https://forck.live/items/3489-xai-raises-6b-series-c - Subject: Grok xAI announced a $6 billion Series C funding round with participation from multiple investors including A16Z, Blackrock, Fidelity, and others. ### Hugging Face — Controlling Language Model Generation with NVIDIA's LogitsProcessorZoo - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2024-12-23 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/logits-processor-zoo - Record: https://forck.live/items/1776-controlling-language-model-generation-with-nvidia-s-logitsprocessorzoo - Subject: Platform NVIDIA's LogitsProcessorZoo is a collection of modular logits processors compatible with Hugging Face's generate method, designed for controlling language model generation by modifying raw prediction scores before decoding.