Amazon extends support to Facebook and Microsoft

Amazon has announced its ONNX-MXNet

Python package to import Open Neural

Network Exchange (ONNX) deep learning models into Apache MXNet. This move indicates the company’s support for Facebook and Microsoft in their efforts to open source artificial intelligence (AI).

With this package, developers running models based on open source ONNX will be able to run them on Apache MXNet. Basically, this allows AI developers to keep models but switch networks, as opposed to starting from scratch.

It has become increasingly evident that the future of AI needs more than just ethical direction and government oversight. It would be comforting to know that the tech giants are on the same page too. The machines, and the humans who will rely on them, need the biggest companies building AI to take on a fair share of responsibility for the future.