# forck.live — 7–13 April 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-W15, 7–13 April 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-W15 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Hugging Face — Visual Salamandra: Pushing the Boundaries of Multimodal Understanding - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2025-04-11T14:21:56+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/BSC-LT/visualsalamandra7b - Record: https://forck.live/items/1715-visual-salamandra-pushing-the-boundaries-of-multimodal-understanding - Subject: Platform BSC-LT releases Visual Salamandra, a 7B multimodal model that extends the Salamandra LLM to handle images and video, using SigLIP encoder and late-fusion architecture. The model is trained on multilingual data with a focus on European languages and is released under Apache 2.0 license. ### Runway — Runway Inks First-Look Development Deal with Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD - Company: Runway (runway.com) - Announced: 2025-04-10T10:10:10.110000+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://runway.com/news/runway-edglrd-deal - Record: https://forck.live/items/7910-runway-inks-first-look-development-deal-with-harmony-korine-s-edglrd - Subject: Gen / Aleph Runway and EDGLRD have entered into a first-look development deal to collaborate on new media projects and formats using Runway's tools. EDGLRD will use Runway across its IP and new media productions. ### OpenAI — BrowseComp: a benchmark for browsing agents - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-04-10T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/browsecomp - Record: https://forck.live/items/586-browsecomp-a-benchmark-for-browsing-agents - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI introduces BrowseComp, a benchmark for evaluating browsing agents. ### Vercel — Introducing Chatbot Template - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2025-04-09T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-chatbot - Record: https://forck.live/items/20887-introducing-chatbot-template - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel announced the Chatbot template, a free, open-source, production-ready template for building conversational AI applications using the AI SDK and Next.js App Router. It includes features such as generative UI, customizable artifacts, and in-browser code execution with WASM and pyodide. ### Amp — Frequently Ignored Feedback - Company: Amp (ampcode.com) - Announced: 2025-04-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://ampcode.com/fif - Record: https://forck.live/items/7851-frequently-ignored-feedback - Subject: Amp Amp published a list of common user feedback that it intentionally does not implement, explaining its rationale for each decision. ### Mistral AI — Evaluating RAG with LLM as a Judge - Company: Mistral AI (mistral.ai) - Announced: 2025-04-09 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://mistral.ai/news/llm-as-rag-judge - Record: https://forck.live/items/3327-evaluating-rag-with-llm-as-a-judge - Subject: Mistral / Le Chat By Mistral AI Team ### Hugging Face — Hugging Face and Cloudflare Partner to Make Real-Time Speech and Video Seamless with FastRTC - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2025-04-09 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/fastrtc-cloudflare - Record: https://forck.live/items/1716-hugging-face-and-cloudflare-partner-to-make-real-time-speech-and-video - Subject: Platform Hugging Face and Cloudflare announce a partnership that provides FastRTC developers with free access to Cloudflare's global TURN servers for real-time WebRTC infrastructure, using a Hugging Face token. ### Vercel — Expanding observability on Vercel - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2025-04-08T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/expanding-observability-on-vercel - Record: https://forck.live/items/20888-expanding-observability-on-vercel - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel announced new native integrations from Sentry, Checkly, and Dash0 on the Vercel Marketplace, allowing users to monitor, measure, and debug apps with integrated billing, single sign-on, and access to provider dashboards. The launch also introduces Log Drains for native integrations, with Dash0 being the first to support this feature, enabling users to send logs from Vercel projects to Dash0 for centralized monitoring. ### Upstage — Upstage and AWS Launch ‘AI Initiative’ for Nonprofits and Educational Institutions - Company: Upstage (upstage.ai) - Announced: 2025-04-08 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.upstage.ai/news/upstage-and-aws-launch-ai-initiative-for-nonprofits-and-educational-institutions - Record: https://forck.live/items/18434-upstage-and-aws-launch-ai-initiative-for-nonprofits-and-educational-institutions - Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini Upstage and AWS announced the AI Initiative, a joint campaign providing free access to Upstage's AI models and AWS infrastructure for qualified educational institutions and nonprofit organizations in South Korea. The program runs through March 31, 2026, and includes mentoring and training for organizations with limited AI experience. ### LG AI Research — [AAAI-25] A Novel Augmentation Technique in Truncated SVD-Based Representation Space for Improving Tabular Data Prediction Performance - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2025-04-08 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=550 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4796-aaai-25-a-novel-augmentation-technique-in-truncated-svd-based-representation - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research presents a paper at AAAI-25 on a novel augmentation technique called RaTab for improving tabular data prediction performance using representation space augmentation based on truncated SVD. ### Hugging Face — Arabic Leaderboards: Introducing Arabic Instruction Following, Updating AraGen, and More - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2025-04-08 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-3c3h-aragen-ifeval - Record: https://forck.live/items/1717-arabic-leaderboards-introducing-arabic-instruction-following-updating-aragen - Subject: Platform Hugging Face and Inception announced new Arabic leaderboards: the Arabic Instruction Following benchmark and an updated AraGen-03-25 leaderboard, as well as a unified Arabic-Leaderboards Space. ### Vercel — Protectd: Evolving Vercel’s always-on denial-of-service mitigations - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2025-04-07T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/protectd-evolving-vercels-always-on-denial-of-service-mitigations - Record: https://forck.live/items/20889-protectd-evolving-vercel-s-always-on-denial-of-service-mitigations - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel announced Protectd, a new real-time security engine that reduces mitigation times for novel denial-of-service attacks by over tenfold. Protectd runs across all deployments and replaces the previous polling-based detection with real-time signal propagation at the edge. ### Runway — Harmony Korine Joins Runway’s 2025 AI Film Festival Jurors - Company: Runway (runway.com) - Announced: 2025-04-07T10:10:10.110000+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://runway.com/news/harmony-korine-joins-aiff-2025-jurors - Record: https://forck.live/items/7911-harmony-korine-joins-runway-s-2025-ai-film-festival-jurors - Subject: Gen / Aleph Harmony Korine joins the jury panel for Runway's 2025 AI Film Festival. ### Krea — A New Krea - Company: Krea (krea.ai) - Announced: 2025-04-07 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.krea.ai/blog/new-krea - Record: https://forck.live/items/15095-a-new-krea - Subject: Krea 2 / AI creative platform Krea announced a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Pebblebed, and Abstract Ventures, bringing total funding to $83 million. The company has grown to over 20 million users and 20x'd revenue with a team of 8, and plans to release a new generation of aesthetic models with deeper artistic understanding and novel control modules. ### LG AI Research — LG Aimers 6: Build an AI Model for Infertility Support - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2025-04-07 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=548 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11007-lg-aimers-6-build-an-ai-model-for-infertility-support - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held the 6th LG Aimers hackathon, where participants developed AI models to predict pregnancy success rates for infertility patients using actual treatment data. The program included lectures on machine learning and domain knowledge from hospital experts, and the final offline hackathon featured 27 teams. LG also hosted a job fair with seven affiliates during the event. ### LG AI Research — LG Aimers 6: Build an AI Model for Infertility Support - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2025-04-07 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=548 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4797-lg-aimers-6-build-an-ai-model-for-infertility-support - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research's 6th LG Aimers hackathon focused on developing an AI model to predict pregnancy success rates for infertility patients, using real treatment data. The event included AI lectures, domain knowledge sessions, and a final offline hackathon with 27 teams. Winners were announced, and LG hosted a job fair with affiliates. ### OpenAI — OpenAI’s EU Economic Blueprint - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-04-07 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/global-affairs/openais-eu-economic-blueprint - Record: https://forck.live/items/589-openai-s-eu-economic-blueprint - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI publishes the EU Economic Blueprint, a set of proposals aimed at promoting AI development and economic growth in Europe.