Google Is Giving Its TensorFlow AI Engine Away for Free Because Data Is Even More Valuable Than Code

When Google open sourced its artificial intelligence engine last week--freely sharing the code with the world at large--Lukas Biewald didn't see it as a triumph of the free software movement. He saw it as a triumph of data. That's how you'd expect him to see it. He's the CEO of the San Francisco startup CrowdFlower, which helps online companies like Twitter juggle massive amounts of data. But after spending time at the Stanford AI Lab, he knows artificial intelligence.