China's deep-learning platform attracts over 8 million users

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's deep-learning platform PaddlePaddle has served more than 8 million users and 220,000 enterprises globally, its developer said on Thursday.

PaddlePaddle is an open-source deep-learning framework released by the National Engineering Research Center of Deep Learning Technology and Application. It provides users with a rich set of tools and resources needed to build deep-learning applications. Currently, the platform has created 800,000 models.

According to the center, its users come from a variety of sectors and industries, including computer vision, natural language processing and intelligent recommendations.