Sony follows Google and Amazon and open sources AI software - Computer Business Review

Sony has followed the example of Google, Amazon and Facebook by open sourcing AI software in search for deep learning developers. Sony has followed in the path of Google, Facebook and Amazon, as it opens up access to its deep-learning software tools in an aim to attract artificial intelligence developers. The company announced that it has made its Neural Network Libraries available in open source, giving software engineers and designers access the core libraries for free to develop the necessary deep learning programs. Sony says the neural network design is a core development of any deep learning program and the shift to open source acts as a method to enable the development community to build on the core libraries' programs. The software in Sony's core libraries is written in C 11 and the programming language runs in different environments and operates on Linux, Windows and other platforms.