Technology Giants Battle for Dominance in Artificial Intelligence Software

There is a war raging in the world of AI software and the competition for dominance is heating up. The first casualty of the AI software war is Theano. The Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms (MILA) has announced that they will stop the development of their Python library Theano following the release of version 1.0 of the software. Here is the link to the announcement. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/theano-users/7Poq8BZutbY

Below is an excerpt from the message posted by Yoshua Bengio on the Theano users group forum explaining why and citing competition as a reason. Read More...