amazon-joins-facebook-and-microsoft-in-support-of-open-source-ai-platform

Amazon yesterday announced its ONNX-MXNet package to import Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) deep learning models into Apache MXNet, signifying the company is on-board with Facebook and Microsoft in efforts to open-source AI. With the ONNX-MXNet Python package, developers running models based on open-source ONNX will be able to run them on Apache MXNet. Basically, this allows AI developers to keep models but switch networks, as opposed to starting from scratch. If you can imagine a thousand start ups and another thousand universities all creating at the bleeding edge of machine learning technology, but unable to share work due to'format' issues, you won't be very far off from the state of things without initiatives like ONNX. With Facebook and Microsoft all-in on the idea of open-source AI platforms, and now Amazon joining them, it's looking like ONNX is the path forward.