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by embedding-shape 25 days ago
> after it seemed for a while that the dust had settled on Tensorflow.

Did it ever? PyTorch always seemed more popular to me, unless you were around Google people, then obviously everything was Tensorflow. But like many Google projects, I never got the impression it was as ubiquitous as PyTorch out in the community outside of Google. Maybe around 2018-2019 it felt like Tensorflow would become more popular than PyTorch eventually, but it never seemed to actually happen.
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DonsDiscountGas 25 days ago
I never worked at Google, and that (tensorflow dominant) was my impression from 2016-2022 or so. I'm pretty sure if you teach Google trends for awhile it's the same picture; tensorflow was way more popular than pytorch but as DL grew, pytorch grew faster (in terms of users).
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jszymborski 25 days ago
TF had first mover's advantage, so they felt like the incumbent for a long time, with PyTorch being the scrappy challenger.
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