IBM beats Microsoft with new deep learning record

With IBM setting new deep learning records, how long can it maintain a position of dominance within the space? IBM says it has broken new ground and achieved a new deep learning record by discovering a way to accelerate data processing, which is crucial to the technology's functionality. This breakthrough regards the time it takes to train deep learning platforms to recognise images, an ability at the core of training technology to process information like humans. The time required by IBM to train a ResNet-101 neural network was a record breaking seven hours, trumping Microsoft's ten day process taken to train the same system. In recent testing the tech giant achieved a record recognition accuracy rate of 33.8% when processing 7.5 million images, beating the previous 29.8%