Artificial intelligence · 2015
TensorFlow
Google open-sources its deep learning framework.
TensorFlow, released in November 2015, gave everyone Google's production system for defining and training networks on CPUs, GPUs and later TPUs. With Theano and Caffe before it, open frameworks made deep learning an engineering discipline.
What it built on 3
What it led to 1
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Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)
ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)