Microsoft Open Sources Artificial Intelligence Toolkit

Called CNTK for short, the toolkit has already proved far more efficient than others created to build deep-learning models for machine-enabled communication, according to Microsoft. Microsoft has moved its Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) deep-learning software from CodePlex to GitHub, providing access to the same resources it uses to other developers. The company has also dropped the Microsoft Research License in favor of the more flexible MIT license. The company is also relying on powerful computers with Graphics processing units (GPU) to run CNTK, as they are the best tools for processing the complicated algorithms that can improve artificial intelligence and speech and image recognition. According to Tech Crunch, Xuedong Huang, Microsoft Corporation's chief speech scientist said that CNTK is highly optimized for speed.