On: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft

[louis-paul]

Curious to see what HN thinks of this. Are Amazon and Microsoft going against Google and Tensorflow? Will we see Gluon Processing Units on AWS and Azure in the near future?

[mza → louis-paul]

We love TensorFlow (and have a ton of developers using it on AWS).

Just like databases we’ll support a wide range of engines on AWS; some of our own like Gluon, along side others from the community like PyTorch and TensorFlow. They’re all first class citizens.

We even fund separable (competing!) teams internally to focus on making sure AWS is the best place to run each of these popular engines.

[gfredtech → louis-paul]

Tensorflow was the default Keras backend on AWS, but it got replaced by MxNet

[krallistic → gfredtech]

Note that they used a pretty old+forked version of keras for the mxnet backend

[eanzenberg → gfredtech]

Sorry that's super confusing, since currently Tensorflow is 1 of 2 possible backends to Keras. Is this the same Keras?

[genericpseudo → eanzenberg]

One of four (MXNet and CNTK alongside TF and Theano), and the Amazon deep learning API forked Keras to default to MXNet support before it was really ready - which irked the Keras authors quite a bit.