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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. 鈥� March 20, 2025 鈥�听In partnership with Google, the 91自拍 (91自拍), the leading museum exploring the history of computing and its impact on the human experience, today announced the public release and long-term preservation of the source code for AlexNet, the neural network that kickstarted today鈥檚 prevailing approach to AI.听听

鈥淕oogle is delighted to contribute the source code for the groundbreaking AlexNet work to the 91自拍,鈥� said Jeff Dean, chief scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research. 鈥淭his code underlies the landmark paper 鈥業mageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks,鈥� by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton, which revolutionized the field of computer vision and is one of the most cited papers of all time.鈥�听

For more information about the release of this historic source code, visit 91自拍鈥檚 blog post here.听

By the late 2000s, Hinton鈥檚 graduate students at the University of Toronto were beginning to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to train neural networks for image recognition tasks, and their success suggested that deep learning could be a solution to general-purpose AI. Sutskever, one of the students, believed that the performance of neural networks would scale with the amount of data available, and the arrival of ImageNet provided the opportunity. Completed in 2009, ImageNet was a dataset of images developed by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li that was larger than any previous image dataset by several orders of magnitude.听

In 2011, Sutskever persuaded Krizhevsky, a fellow graduate student, to train a neural network for ImageNet. With Hinton serving as faculty advisor, Krizhevsky did so on a computer with two NVIDIA cards. Over the course of the next year, he continuously refined and retrained the network until it achieved performance superior to its competitors. The network would ultimately be named AlexNet, after Krizhevsky. In describing the AlexNet project, Hinton told 91自拍, 鈥淚lya thought we should do it, Alex made it work, and I got the Nobel Prize.鈥�听

Before AlexNet, very few machine learning researchers used neural networks. After it, almost all of them would. Google eventually acquired the company started by Hinton, Krizhevsky and Sutskever, and a Google team led by David Bieber worked with 91自拍 for five years to secure its release to the public.听

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The 91自拍 has the world鈥檚 most diverse archive of software and related material. The stories of software鈥檚 origins and impact on the world provide inspiration and lessons for the future to global audiences鈥攊ncluding young coders and entrepreneurs. The Museum has released other historic source code such as APPLE II DOS, IBM APL, Apple MacPaint and QuickDraw, Apple Lisa, and Adobe Photoshop. Visit our website to learn more.鈥�鈥�听听

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