The Battle Between Google & Facebook That Nobody Is Talking About

When we talk about competition between tech giants, here are the usual suspects – Google competes with Facebook for ad revenues, Google competes with AWS & Microsoft for cloud revenue, and the list goes on. But an area that's often missed from the technical parlance especially for those who are close to the ML developments, is how Facebook and Google are competing for a pie of ML developers attention through open source frameworks. Google launched Tensorflow with much fanfare in November 2015. Facebook launched Pytorch in 2016. Both are open source frameworks/ libraries for machine learning, used primarily on Python but can also be used by developers on C & Julia.