Google Just Made It Easier for Your iPhone Apps to Bake in A.I.

Google's TensorFlow is the open-source platform that underlies a lot of the machine-learning done on the internet. Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and even the program that bested the world's champion at the game of Go all rely on some version of TensorFlow to function, and now it's opening up to iOS developers. Google uploaded the newest version of TensorFlow, version 0.9, to GitHub on Thursday morning, fulfilling the long-promised goal of providing open-source iOS support to the advanced neural-based artificial intelligence network. The biggest beneficiaries of the move are Apple developers who now can harness one of the most powerful A.I. systems in the world for free in their apps and programs. TensorFlow has been available to Android developers open source since 2014, but since many apps begin as iOS projects exclusively, the number of projects that can include the technology just received a huge boost.