Sony joins Facebook, Google and Amazon in chase for AI developers

Tokyo

SONY Corp opened up access to its deep-learning software tools, joining Google, Facebook and Amazon.com in a push to attract artificial intelligence developers.

The Japanese company made its Neural Network Libraries available under a free licence that lets programmers distribute, modify and use the software for any purpose without paying royalties. The shift to open source aims to "enable the development community to further build on the core libraries' programs," Sony said in a statement on Tuesday.