Microsoft updates Deep Learning Toolkit to version 2.0 bringing lots of new features

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Published onApril 4, 2017

published onApril 4, 2017

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Microsoft is bringing its Cognitive Toolkit version 2.0 out of beta today and should be helping out a ton of companies who depend on tools to deploy deep learning at scale.

The Cognitive Toolkit or CNTK to some is a deep learning tool that helps companies speed up the process of image and speech recognition. Thanks to today’s update, CNTK can now be used by companies either on-premises or in the cloud combined with Azure GPUs.

Cognitive Toolkit is being used extensively by a wide variety of Microsoft products, by companies worldwide with a need to deploy deep learning at scale, and by students interested in the very latest algorithms and techniques. The latest version of the toolkit is available onGitHubvia an open source license. Since releasing thebetain October 2016, more than 10 beta releases have been deployed with hundreds ofnew features, performance improvements and fixes.

Along with today’s release, customers get access to additional bindings using the cognitive Toolkit software library which include Python (version 2.7, 3.4, and 3,5), C++, as well as C#/.NET Managed.

Other features include Python examples and tutorials, a slew of improvements to the Layers library, new automated installation, the inclusion Docker Images at Docker Hub and a few others.

For anyone interested, there is more information about today’s Toolkit releasehere.

Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

Kareem is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. His passion for technology and content creation drives are unmatched, driving him to create well-researched articles and incredible YouTube videos.

He is always on the lookout for everything new about Microsoft, focusing on making easy-to-understand content and breaking down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security.

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Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

He is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. He breaks down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security

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