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For a short period of time circa 2017/2018, Google was on the path toward monopolizing machine learning as well through Tensorflow. Thankfully, PyTorch overtook
by mrintellectual 5y ago
For a short period of time circa 2017/2018, Google was on the path toward monopolizing machine learning as well through Tensorflow. Thankfully, PyTorch overtook TF.
- dkarp 5y agoWhich was open sourced by another tech giant (FB)
- mrintellectual 5y agoThe original Lua-based Torch is actually from EPFL, not Facebook. Tensorflow originated from Google's internal DistBelief system, making TF a Google project through and through.
- torbTurret 5y agoBut nobody would care about PyTorch if it didn’t have big tech’s blessing, which is the point the above was making.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoWow, and the paper was released in 2002!: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/82802?ln=en https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/82802?ln=en To be fair though, the reason PyTorch exists is because Yann Le Cun used Torch, and presumably FB thought a Python version was better than teaching engineers Lua.