In August, the two companies partnered to integrate their voice-powered digital assistants so that Amazon’s Alexa could communicate with Microsoft’s Cortana.
Under this new agreement, announced Thursday, developers can use Gluon, a Python-based application programming interface, to work with Apache MXNet, the AI framework used by Amazon Web Services. Gluon is also exploring ways to make it easier for developers to work with the Cognitive Toolkit, Microsoft’s open-sourced framework. Both Amazon and Microsoft are publishing the specifications for Gluon so other frameworks can adopt it, and company leaders say the Gluon interface is concise and easy to understand.
“We believe it is important for the industry to work together and pool resources to build technology that benefits the broader community,” Eric Boyd, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s AI and Research group, said in a statement. “This is why Microsoft has collaborated with AWS to create the Gluon interface and enable an open AI ecosystem where developers have freedom of choice.”
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