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You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

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Google and the Computer History Museum have released the source code for AlexNet .

The Python code is now available on CHM 's GitHub page as open source software.

AlexNet served as a watershed moment in AI because it could accurately identify objects in photos with unprecedented accuracy.

The neural network won the 2012 ImageNet competition by recognizing objects in photographs far better than any previous method.

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