# forck.live — 6–12 January 2025 > 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 2025-W02, 6–12 January 2025, 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/2025-W02 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Vercel — Transforming how you work with v0 - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2025-01-10T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/transforming-how-you-work-with-v0 - Record: https://forck.live/items/20908-transforming-how-you-work-with-v0 - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel's v0, an AI-powered pair programmer, now offers capabilities beyond coding, benefiting professionals in roles such as content creators, designers, data analysts, project managers, educators, and customer support. ### Hugging Face — Visual Document Retrieval Goes Multilingual - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2025-01-10 - Category: open-weight-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual - Record: https://forck.live/items/1772-visual-document-retrieval-goes-multilingual - Subject: Platform Hugging Face and LlamaIndex release vdr-2b-multi-v1, a multilingual embedding model for visual document retrieval, along with its English-only variant vdr-2b-v1 and an open-source dataset vdr-multilingual-train. ### Hugging Face — CO₂ Emissions and Models Performance: Insights from the Open LLM Leaderboard - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2025-01-09 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-emissions-analysis - Record: https://forck.live/items/1773-co-emissions-and-models-performance-insights-from-the-open-llm-leaderboard - Subject: Platform Hugging Face published a blog post analyzing CO₂ emissions and performance of over 3,000 models on the Open LLM Leaderboard, integrating carbon emission estimates to promote transparency and environmental responsibility. The post finds that larger models generally have higher CO₂ costs with diminishing returns, and that community fine-tunes tend to be more carbon-efficient than official models. ### Vercel — Headless Salesforce: An incremental migration from monolith to composable - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2025-01-07T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/salesforce-incremental-migration - Record: https://forck.live/items/20909-headless-salesforce-an-incremental-migration-from-monolith-to-composable - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Keep your commerce backend and de-risk your migration. For ecommerce teams running Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the platform's monolithic design can feel like a double-edged sword. ### Lovable — Incident update, new Labs features and more - Company: Lovable (lovable.dev) - Announced: 2025-01-07T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/2025-01-07-changelog - Record: https://forck.live/items/12197-incident-update-new-labs-features-and-more - Subject: Lovable / AI app builder Lovable added a Labs section with experimental features, starting with Chat-Only Mode that lets users chat without making edits. The company also resolved a GitHub integration outage, refunded lost credits, and gave all users unlimited credits for the weekend. ### Lovable — Incident Jan 2: Github outage - Company: Lovable (lovable.dev) - Announced: 2025-01-06 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/incident-github-outage - Record: https://forck.live/items/12198-incident-jan-2-github-outage - Subject: Lovable / AI app builder Lovable experienced a 19-hour outage on January 2-3, 2025, after GitHub disabled its app for violating terms of service due to rapid repository creation. The issue was resolved for new projects by migrating to AWS S3 for file storage, and for existing projects when GitHub reinstated the app. Lovable restored credits used during the outage and gave paying users unlimited access the following weekend.