CNTK is an offering by Microsoft. The framework is a part of the ONNX format initiative, which allows easy conversion of models between different neural toolkit frameworks. The framework is responsible for a huge portion of the deep learning production workload on Microsoft software and platforms. Launched in 2016, the framework has been a contender to popular frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and so on. The framework is completely open source and can be found at https://github.com/microsoft/CNTK.
CNTK powers enterprise services, such as Cortana and Bing, and advertisements, such as Skype Translate, Microsoft Cognitive Services, and several others. It has been proven to work faster than competitors such as TensorFlow and PyTorch on several applications.
In this section, we will study some fundamentals of CNTK and then proceed to create a Django application...
