Microsoft Updates its Deep Learning Toolkit

This post is by Chris Basoglu, Partner Engineering Manager in the AI & Research group at Microsoft. We are delighted to announce that Microsoft has brought Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit version 2.0 out of beta and is making the first release candidate available today. The toolkit, previously known as CNTK, is a system for deep learning used to speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition and search relevance on CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs. Cognitive Toolkit can be used on-premises or in the cloud with Azure GPUs. Cognitive Toolkit is being used extensively by a wide variety of Microsoft products, by companies worldwide with a need to deploy deep learning at scale, and by students interested in the very latest algorithms and techniques.