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Why China is the next proving ground for open source software

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Matt Asay
Sep 20, 2016

China is not merely consuming the West’s best software: It’s open sourcing its own. Baidu, for example, has just announced the open sourcing of its machine learning platform, PaddlePaddle, under an Apache license. According to Li, “This is as significant as when Google open sourced its machine learning platform, Tensorflow.”
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