Sony Makes the NNabla Neural Network Framework Opensource

Last night, Tokyo-based Sony open-sourced its deep learning framework, which it has dubbed NNabla – Neural Network Libraries.
The libraries support static and dynamic computation graphs as well as functions, operators and optimizer modules for neural networks.
On the backend, the code is written primarily in C++11.
So far, Sony has tested the libraries on Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 8 and 10.
José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom who specializes in machine learning, commented that Sony's framework "seems something similar to existing frameworks" for machine learning such as TensorFlow, (Py)Torch and Theano.
Some of Sony's products that use neural networks include real estate price estimates, gesture sensitivity and image recognition. According to the blog post, the libraries are designed with "high speed and memory efficiency".

Lots of companies have been opensourcing their deep learning libraries lately. It's an overall positive sign for the future of AI. It also works as evidence that capitalism isn't all that bad.