Fruit of an acquisition: Apple AI software goes open

Apple's joined other juggernauts of the tech sector by releasing an open source AI framework. Turi Create 4.0, which landed at GitHub recently, is a fruit of its 2016 US$200 million acquisition of Turi. As the GitHub description explains, it targets app developers that want custom machine learning models but don't have the expertise to "add recommendations, object detection, image classification, image similarity or activity classification" to their apps. Completed models are exported to Core ML for use in "iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps". Other details noted at the repo include a focus on tasks rather than algorithms; built-in streaming visualisation for data exploration; support for text, images, audio, video, and sensor data; and it can "work with large datasets on a single machine".