Conceived and designed by Jeff Dean and his team, TensorFlow was the successor to DistBelief, the sweeping software system that trained deep neural networks across Google’s global network of data centers. But that was not all. After deploying the software in its own data centers, Google had open-sourced this creation, freely sharing the code with the world at large. This was a way of exerting its power across the tech landscape. If other companies, universities, government agencies, and individuals used Google’s software as they, too, pushed into deep learning, their efforts would feed the
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