China 's largest internet search company , Baidu , has released some of its key code . Used recently to build its impressive speech - recognition system called Deep Speech 2 , which users prefer to use for sending short messages or to perform internet searches , the code , called pseudo - CTC , is a deep - learning algorithm . Several tech companies , including Facebook and Yahoo , are making deep - learning code freely available in order to benefit from public research in developing machine - learning systems and future generations of start - ups which utilize their AI algorithms .
China's leading internet search company, Baidu, has released some of its key code. Used recently to build its impressive speech-recognition system called Deep Speech 2, which users prefer to use for sending short messages or to perform internet searches, the code, called Warp-CTC, is a deep-learning algorithm. Several tech companies, including Facebook and Yahoo, are making deep-learning code freely available in order to benefit from public research in developing machine-learning systems and future acquisition of start-ups which use their AI technology.