Linux Foundation Spawns Child Foundation for AI

The Linux Foundation is throwing its hat into the artificial intelligence ring. On Tuesday, the open source organization announced the launch of the Deep Learning Foundation. The official goal is to promote open source innovation in AI, machine learning, and deep learning. Also like most of the foundation's projects, this one is hitting the ground running with a flagship software project, and sponsors that include Amdocs, AT&T, B.Yond, Baidu, Huawei, Nokia, Tech Mahindra, Tencent, Univa, and ZTE. The software, which is already available for download, is the Acumos AI Project and was supplied by AT&T and India-based Tech Mahindra, a supplier of IT for telecoms.