Amazon and Microsoft Team up Again on Machine Learning

November 21, 2017

Recently, tech giants Amazon and Microsoft made public a new partnership. No, they’re not splitting Seahawks season tickets in their mutual hometown of Seattle. In fact, they are pooling their collective brain powers to advance machine learning and we should all sit up and take notice. We learned this from a recent InfoQ article, “Microsoft and Amazon Collaborate on Machine Learning.”

As the article states about the pair’s new AI product, Gluon:

Gluon is an open-source deep learning and neural network solution that is exposed through a Python-based API. It comes with prebuilt neural network components that can be created on the fly and used to train algorithms making it easier to define, debug, iterate and reuse components.

 

Gluons brings support for programming techniques not found in other frameworks, such as dynamic graphs, and has deep support for sparse data which is often found in natural language processing.

This might sound like a strange one-off, but we are actually seeing this kind of partnership cropping up more and more. In fact, these two recently paired to make sure their virtual assistant programs could communicate with one another, which were met with great acclaim. Perhaps the days of incompatibility are over in the tech world and it will no longer matter if you are a Mac or a PC, maybe someday, if partnerships like this continue, they will work together no matter what.

Patrick Roland, November 21, 2017

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