Microsoft's upgraded deep learning tools released to the world

The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit was originally launched in beta back in October 2016. It provides a set of robust intelligent services that enable developers to draw on AI within their own products. The revised version launched this week includes "hundreds" of new features that combine to make a simpler and more powerful toolkit. Microsoft originally built the Cognitive Toolkit to aid the development of its own internal services. It was devised as a method of accelerating the previously costly training procedures required to launch new neural networks.