Gluon brings AI developers self-tuning machine learning

Deep learning systems have long been tough to work with, due to all the fine-tuning and knob-twiddling needed to get good results from them. Gluon is a joint effort by Microsoft and Amazon Web Services do reduce all that fiddling effort. Gluon works with the Apache MXNet and Microsoft's Cognitive Toolkit frameworks to optimize deep-learning network training on those systems. The problem with steps 1 and 2 is that they're tedious and inflexible. Hard-coding a network is slow, and altering that coding to improve the network's behavior is also slow.