r/MachineLearning - [D] Preferred Networks (creators of Chainer) migrating it's research platform to PyTorch from Chainer

PFN to work with PyTorch and the open-source community to develop the framework and advance MN-Core processor support. Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN, Head Office: Tokyo, President & CEO: Toru Nishikawa) today announced plans to incrementally transition its deep learning framework (a fundamental technology in research and development) from PFN's Chainer to PyTorch. Concurrently, PFN will collaborate with Facebook and the other contributors of the PyTorch community to actively participate in the development of PyTorch. With the latest major upgrade v7 released today, Chainer will move into a maintenance phase. PFN will provide documentation and a library to facilitate the migration to PyTorch for Chainer users.