# forck.live — 27 January – 2 February 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-W05, 27 January – 2 February 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-W05
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### OpenAI — Introducing deep research

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-02T16:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research
- Record: https://forck.live/items/634-introducing-deep-research
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI introduces deep research, an agent that uses reasoning to synthesize online information and complete multi-step research tasks. It is available to Pro users today, with Plus and Team users gaining access next.

### OpenAI — Understanding complex trends with deep research

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-02T16:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/deep-research
- Record: https://forck.live/items/633-understanding-complex-trends-with-deep-research
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI's deep research tool is used by Bain & Company to analyze complex industry trends.

### Hugging Face — Open-R1: Update #1

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-02-02T00:04:28+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-1
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1756-open-r1-update-1
- Subject: Platform

Open-R1 project provides a one-week update on reproducing DeepSeek-R1's training pipeline and synthetic data, including evaluation results on MATH-500, integration of GRPO into TRL, and efforts to scale synthetic data generation.

### OpenAI — Operation “Sponsored Discontent”: Influence activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-sponsored-discontent
- Record: https://forck.live/items/642-operation-sponsored-discontent-influence-activity
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned accounts likely originating from China that used AI to generate English social media posts and Spanish-language articles.

### OpenAI — Romance-baiting scam: AI-assisted pig butchering workflows

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-romance-baiting-scam
- Record: https://forck.live/items/641-romance-baiting-scam-ai-assisted-pig-butchering-workflows
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned accounts that used AI to assist in romance-baiting and investment scam conversations.

### OpenAI — Iranian influence nexus: Cross-platform activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-iranian-influence-nexus
- Record: https://forck.live/items/640-iranian-influence-nexus-cross-platform-activity
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned Iran-linked accounts that used AI to generate articles and social posts related to IUVM and STORM-2035 influence operations.

### OpenAI — Cyber threat actors: AI-assisted intrusion research

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-cyber-threat-actors
- Record: https://forck.live/items/639-cyber-threat-actors-ai-assisted-intrusion-research
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned accounts potentially associated with DPRK-affiliated threat actors that used AI to research intrusion tooling, phishing, malware, and cryptocurrency targeting.

### OpenAI — Covert influence operation: Ghana election activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-ghana-election
- Record: https://forck.live/items/638-covert-influence-operation-ghana-election-activity
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned accounts that used its AI to generate articles, posts, and fake engagement related to Ghana's 2024 presidential election, as part of disrupting malicious uses of AI.

### OpenAI — Task scam: AI-assisted fake review jobs

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-task-scam
- Record: https://forck.live/items/637-task-scam-ai-assisted-fake-review-jobs
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned accounts that appeared to originate in Cambodia and used AI to translate messages for fake-review job scams that asked victims to pay fees.

### OpenAI — Operation “Peer Review”: AI-assisted surveillance planning

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-peer-review
- Record: https://forck.live/items/636-operation-peer-review-ai-assisted-surveillance-planning
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned accounts likely originating from China that were using AI to draft surveillance-tool pitches, analyze documents, and debug code.

### OpenAI — Deceptive Employment Scheme: AI-assisted hiring deception

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-deceptive-employment-scheme
- Record: https://forck.live/items/635-deceptive-employment-scheme-ai-assisted-hiring-deception
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned accounts linked to a deceptive employment scheme resembling North Korea-linked IT worker activity.

### Lovable — From Fashion to Founding: How Talisha Found a Home in Lovable’s Community

- Company: Lovable (lovable.dev)
- Announced: 2025-01-31T18:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/2025-01-31-from-fashion-to-founding-how-talisha-found-a-home-in-lovables-community
- Record: https://forck.live/items/12175-from-fashion-to-founding-how-talisha-found-a-home-in-lovable-s-community
- Subject: Lovable / AI app builder

Lovable published a community spotlight interview with Talisha, a former fashion designer who became a software engineer and active Lovable contributor. She built a Chrome extension called Lovify to assist with debugging, planning, and execution, and she highlights Lovable's Supabase integration and simple UI as key reasons she prefers it over other AI development tools.

### Lovable — Announcing Lovable Launched

- Company: Lovable (lovable.dev)
- Announced: 2025-01-31T11:05:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/2025-01-30-how-to-launch-and-get-traffic-to-an-app-built-with-lovable
- Record: https://forck.live/items/12176-announcing-lovable-launched
- Subject: Lovable / AI app builder

Lovable published a step-by-step guide for getting first users to apps built with Lovable, and introduced Lovable Launched, a free platform where users can publish their apps for discovery and voting. The guide recommends submitting apps to Lovable Launched, driving upvotes via social media, and launching on Product Hunt, alongside other marketing strategies such as email, paid ads, influencers, and SEO.

### OpenAI — OpenAI o3-mini System Card

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-01-31T11:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/o3-mini-system-card
- Record: https://forck.live/items/644-openai-o3-mini-system-card
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI published a system card for the o3-mini model detailing safety evaluations, external red teaming, and Preparedness Framework evaluations.

### Hugging Face — Mini-R1: Reproduce Deepseek R1 „aha moment“ a RL tutorial

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-01-31T10:29:40+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/mini-r1-contdown-game
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1757-mini-r1-reproduce-deepseek-r1-aha-moment-a-rl-tutorial
- Subject: Platform

Reproducing DeepSeek R1's 'aha moment' using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and the Countdown Game, training an open model with reinforcement learning.

### Replit — Repls are now Replit Apps

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2025-01-31T05:51:23+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/replit-apps
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17957-repls-are-now-replit-apps
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit renamed its core user creations from 'Repls' to 'Replit Apps' (or 'Apps' for short). The change reflects the platform's evolution from a simple REPL environment to a full application-building platform with AI, databases, and deployment capabilities.

### Hugging Face — The AI tools for Art Newsletter - Issue 1

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-01-31
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ai-art-newsletter-jan-25
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1758-the-ai-tools-for-art-newsletter-issue-1
- Subject: Platform

A newsletter looking back at key milestones, tools, and breakthroughs in AI and arts from 2024, and forward to 2025, highlighting open source releases in image and video generation.

### Lovable — Why Non-Tech Founders No Longer Need a Developer to Launch Software

- Company: Lovable (lovable.dev)
- Announced: 2025-01-30T14:05:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/2025-01-30-why-non-tech-founders-no-longer-need-a-developer-to-launch-software
- Record: https://forck.live/items/12177-why-non-tech-founders-no-longer-need-a-developer-to-launch-software
- Subject: Lovable / AI app builder

Lovable positions its AI-powered platform as a tool that lets non-technical founders build functional MVPs without writing code, replacing the need for a developer or technical co-founder in early-stage validation and iteration.

### Vercel — ISR on Vercel is now faster and more cost-efficient

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2025-01-30T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/isr-on-vercel-is-now-faster-and-more-cost-efficient
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20903-isr-on-vercel-is-now-faster-and-more-cost-efficient
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel has optimized its Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) caching with regionalized storage and automatic compression, reducing TTFB latency by up to 80% and ISR spend by up to 65%. The improvements require no configuration changes and are live for all Vercel users upon redeployment.

### OpenAI — Strengthening America’s AI leadership with the U.S. National Laboratories

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-01-30T10:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/strengthening-americas-ai-leadership-with-the-us-national-laboratories
- Record: https://forck.live/items/645-strengthening-america-s-ai-leadership-with-the-u-s-national-laboratories
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI's latest line of reasoning models will be used by scientists at U.S. National Laboratories to drive scientific breakthroughs.

### Mistral AI — Mistral Small 3

- Company: Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
- Announced: 2025-01-30
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/3333-mistral-small-3
- Subject: Mistral / Le Chat

Mistral AI announces Mistral Small 3, a new model.

### Hugging Face — How to deploy and fine-tune DeepSeek models on AWS

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-01-30
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/deepseek-r1-aws
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1759-how-to-deploy-and-fine-tune-deepseek-models-on-aws
- Subject: Platform

A guide on deploying and fine-tuning DeepSeek R1 models on AWS using Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, and Amazon SageMaker AI, including code snippets and hardware recommendations for distilled variants.

### Lovable — From Idea to Full-Blown Product in a Month

- Company: Lovable (lovable.dev)
- Announced: 2025-01-29T13:30:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/2025-01-30-from-idea-to-full-blown-product-in-a-month
- Record: https://forck.live/items/12178-from-idea-to-full-blown-product-in-a-month
- Subject: Lovable / AI app builder

Tom, a holistic health expert with no coding experience, built the digital health app Elora Health using Lovable in one month. He used AI to create and refine features, learning development concepts along the way. The app now has two paying customers.

### Alibaba — Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the Intelligence of Large-scale MoE Model

- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Announced: 2025-01-28T15:00:04+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-max/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2296-qwen2-5-max-exploring-the-intelligence-of-large-scale-moe-model
- Subject: Qwen

The benefits of scaling data and model size, notes limited experience in scaling large models, references DeepSeek V3, and states that Alibaba is developing Qwen2.

### Lovable — Zero to $10M ARR in 2 months

- Company: Lovable (lovable.dev)
- Announced: 2025-01-28T14:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/2025-01-29-zero-to-10m-arr-in-2-months
- Record: https://forck.live/items/12179-zero-to-10m-arr-in-2-months
- Subject: Lovable / AI app builder

Lovable recounts its evolution from the open-source project GPT Engineer to a product that reached $10M ARR within two months. The post highlights growth strategies including community sharing, content marketing, and integrations with Supabase, GitHub, and Figma. Upcoming features include instant edits, collaboration, and a migration from Python to Go.

### Hugging Face — Open-R1: a fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-01-28
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1761-open-r1-a-fully-open-reproduction-of-deepseek-r1
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face launches the Open-R1 project to systematically reconstruct DeepSeek-R1's data and training pipeline, aiming to provide transparency on how reinforcement learning can enhance reasoning and share reproducible insights with the open-source community.

### Hugging Face — Welcome to Inference Providers on the Hub 🔥

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-01-28
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/inference-providers
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1760-welcome-to-inference-providers-on-the-hub
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face announces the integration of serverless inference providers (fal, Replicate, Sambanova, Together AI) directly on Hub model pages and client SDKs, allowing users to run inference on a variety of models through these providers.

### Vercel — Working with Figma and custom design systems in v0

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2025-01-27T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/working-with-figma-and-custom-design-systems-in-v0
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20904-working-with-figma-and-custom-design-systems-in-v0
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel's guide covers best practices for importing Figma designs into v0, including breaking designs into smaller components, using an iterative approach, and leveraging shadcn/ui and custom Tailwind configs. It also notes that v0 supports public npm packages and can adapt to custom design systems.

### Hugging Face — State of open video generation models in Diffusers

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-01-27
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/video_gen
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1762-state-of-open-video-generation-models-in-diffusers
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face publishes a blog post reviewing open video generation models and outlining Diffusers team plans for supporting them.