Google's new machine learning framework is going to put more AI on your phone

At the moment, artificial intelligence lives in the cloud, but Google -- and other big tech companies -- want it work directly on your devices, too. At Google I/O today, the search giant announced a new initiative to help its AI make this leap down to earth: a mobile-optimized version of its machine learning framework named TensorFlowLite. The original TensorFlow was released in November 2015, and quickly became popular with both researchers and developers as a way to build AI tools. TensorFlow is flexible, reliable, and comes with a big stack of documentation that makes it easy for beginners to get started. The newly announced version, TensorFlowLite, will build on this, helping users slim down their machine learning algorithms to work on-device.