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Amazon Web Services and Microsoft offer new AI framework

AWS and Microsoft have unveiled the availability of Gluon, an open source deep learning library for building artificial intelligence neural networks. Gluon will enable data scientist to build prototypes and utilize the network graphs for new model architectures.

" As AI tools become easier to use, more developers will create more apps infused with AI, which means AI will have a bigger impact on society. So tools like Gluon and Keras are helping to expand the impact of AI," observed Chris Nicholson, CEO of Skymind .

Developing an AI framework with deep learning models were essential to the data scientists who needed to understand large and complex operations. To bridge this gap, Gluon was developed. It is an easy-to-use python application programming interface for develop neural nets. It has two important components: training algorithms and neural network models.

Both Amazon and Microsoft has been battling it out for the framework and it is competed against Keras, an AI framework tool created by Google.

" With AI, the genie is out of the bottle, and trying to monopolize it will more likely alienate people than win any friends ... . AI itself is not going to drive revenue directly for these companies," said Mark Lambiase, chief technology officer of Fox Technologies.

Since Gluon is a open source project, it may help several talents to be pooled in by the community.

Tag : Amazon-web-services Open Source
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