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by ThePhysicist 3446 days ago
I think their main focus now is to provide an engineering infrastructure for AI researchers, which in my opinion is extremely valuable: Today, if you want to develop new algorithms in AI (not only but particularly in reinforcement learning) you often need to invest a significant amount of time just to get the the data that you want to use for training your model into a form where you can actually use it. Having an API or library that takes care of this for you allows people to focus more on the research and less on the engineering around it, speeding up the discovery of new insights and giving more people access to the tools they need to make a meaningful contribution. So overall a really great approach!