Google Too Facebook Are Teaming Upward On Artificial Word Tech (Goog; Fb)

From Fortune, Oct 3:

Google as well as Facebook are teaming upward to brand each company’s artificial word technologies operate meliorate together.

The 2 companies said Tuesday that an unspecified set out of engineers are collaborating to brand Facebook’s opened upward rootage machine learning PyTorch framework operate alongside Google’s custom estimator chips for machine learning, dubbed Tensor Processing Units, or TPU. The collaboration marks 1 of the rare instances of the applied scientific discipline rivals working together on articulation tech projects.

“Today, we’re pleased to denote that engineers on Google’s TPU squad are actively collaborating alongside centre PyTorch developers to connect PyTorch to Cloud TPUs,” Google Cloud managing director of production administration Rajen Sheth wrote inwards a spider web log post. “The long-term destination is to enable everyone to savour the simplicity as well as flexibility of PyTorch piece benefiting from the performance, scalability, as well as cost-efficiency of Cloud TPUs.”

Facebook production manager for artificial word Joseph Spisak said inwards a dissever spider web log postal service that “Engineers on Google’s Cloud TPU squad are inwards active collaboration alongside our PyTorch squad to enable back upward for PyTorch 1.0 models on this custom hardware.”

Google start debuted its TPUs inwards 2016 during its annual developer conference, as well as pitched them every bit a to a greater extent than efficient means for companies as well as researchers to mightiness their machine-learning software projects. The search giant sells access to its TPUs via its cloud computing business instead of selling the chips individually to customers similar Nvidia, whose graphics processing units, or GPUs, are pop alongside researchers working on deep learning projects.

Artificial word technologies similar deep learning accept grown inwards popularity over the years alongside tech giants similar Google as well as Facebook that role the technologies to practice software applications that tin automatically practice tasks similar recognize images inwards photos....MORE