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 Facebook and Yahoo, is a deep-learning algorithm. Several tech companies, including Warp-CTC, 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.
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.