Open source and open data

There's currently an ongoing debate about the value of data and whether internet companies should do more to share their data with others. At Google we've long believed that open data and open source are good not only for us and our industry, but also benefit the world at large. Our commitment to open source and open data has led us to share datasets, services and software with everyone. For example, Google released the Open Images dataset of 36.5 million images containing nearly 20,000 categories of human-labeled objects. With this data, computer vision researchers can train image recognition systems.