Google Debuts TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha

TensorFlow is the world's most popular open source machine learning library. Since its initial release in 2015, the Google Brain product has been downloaded over 41 million times. At this week's 2019 TensorFlow Dev Summit, Google announced a major upgrade on the framework, the TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha version. TensorFlow 2.0 focuses on simplicity and ease of use, with updates like eager execution, intuitive higher-level APIs, and flexible model building on any platform. Last August Google Brain Software Engineer Martin Wicke posted in Google Groups that TensorFlow 2.0 would be a major milestone, which led many in the machine learning community to expect the following upgrades: According to the TensorFlow 2.0 official guide, Google has delivered on the expectations.