Microsoft Embeds Artificial Intelligence in Windows 10 Update

The next Windows 10 update opens the way for the integration of artificial intelligence within Windows applications, directly impacting hundreds of millions of devices from Windows PCs and tablets to IoT Edge devices. The new version of the Windows ML platform allows developers to integrate pre-trained deep-learning models within their applications directly in Visual Studio. The models must be converted into the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format before importing into VS tools. ONNX is an open-source machine-learning framework launched by Microsoft and Facebook in September 2017, later joined by AWS. ONNX enables portability between neural-network frameworks, making it possible for models trained with tools like Pytorch, Apache MxNet, caffe2 or Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) to be translated to ONNX and later implemented in Windows applications.