Amazon's deep learning darling MXNet hits Apache Incubator

From InfoWorld: MXNet, chosen by Amazon as its "deep learning framework of choice," has been accepted into the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator to support its future development.

This is not the only machine learning project with ASF sponsorship. Apache Mahout provides scalable machine learning resources on Hadoop clusters; Apache Spark has machine learning functionality as well. However, MXNet is specifically aimed at deep learning, which is used in complex applications like speech recognition or computer vision.

Amazon singled out MXNet, one of InfoWorld's Open Source Rookies of the Year for 2016, as compact, with broad support available in a variety of languages, and highly scalable across CPUs and GPUs.

As part of the ASF, MXNet is under more general governance and spurs both contributions and uptake from a beyond Amazon. In practice, some ASF projects continue to be driven mainly by one commercial outfit -- for example, DataStax and Apache Cassandra, or Databricks and Apache Spark.

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