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Is Keras actually sponsored by Google as the article suggests? I know, Chollet works at Google but the fact that the creator of X works at Y doesn't make X "sponsored by Y"

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He mentioned a few times recently that Keras will get pulled into tensorflow.

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/820746845068505088

Thanks, I had missed that tweet

I was googling that and it seems Chollet also confirmed that in a Reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5jg7b8/p_d...

Some background in this article currently featured in r/MachineLearning: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5o9vfx/d_k...

If you maintain a large open source project during work hours then that arguably is "sponsorship". Looking at the Keras commit log it seems he pushes frequently.

Thanks, I was assuming it was a side project for him.

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