{"id":35953,"date":"2017-04-07T00:25:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T07:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/microsoft-updates-deep-learning-toolkit-to-version-2-0-bringing-lots-of-new-features"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:49","slug":"microsoft-updates-deep-learning-toolkit-to-version-2-0-bringing-lots-of-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/microsoft-updates-deep-learning-toolkit-to-version-2-0-bringing-lots-of-new-features","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft updates Deep Learning Toolkit to version 2.0 bringing lots of new features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-updates-deep-learning-toolkit-to-version-2-0-bringing-lots-of-new-features.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s update, CNTK can now be used by companies either on-premises or in the cloud combined with Azure GPUs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/CNTK\">GitHub<\/a> via an open source license. Since releasing the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/next\/2016\/10\/25\/microsoft-releases-beta-microsoft-cognitive-toolkit-deep-learning-advances\/\">beta<\/a> in October 2016, more than 10 beta releases have been deployed with hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/CNTK\/releases\">new features, performance improvements and fixes<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onmsft.com\/news\/microsoft-updates-deep-learning-toolkit-to-version-2-0-bringing-lots-of-new-features\">https:\/\/www.onmsft.com\/news\/microsoft-updates-deep-learning-...w-features<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58143,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35953\/revisions\/58143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}