TensorFlow deepens its advantages in the AI modeling wars

TensorFlow remains the dominant AI modeling framework. Most AI (artificial intelligence) developers continue to use it as their primary open source tool or alongside PyTorch, in which they develop most of their ML (machine learning), deep learning, and NLP (natural language processing) models. In the most recent O'Reilly survey on AI adoption in the enterprise, more than half of the responding data scientists cited TensorFlow as their primary tool. This finding is making me rethink my speculation, published just last month, that TensorFlow's dominance among working data scientists may be waning. Neverthless, PyTorch remains a strong second choice, having expanded its usage in the O'Reilly study to more than 36 percent of respondents, up from 29 percent in the previous year's survey. As the decade proceeds, the differences between these frameworks will diminish as data scientists and other users value feature parity over strong functional differentiation.